Crazy man tweak

[dannjr]

Originally posted by darkreign
thanks!
i cant begin to thank you enough... the tweak is great!
i havent been running it for long, but it kicks ass...
the web pages here in the forum load up like they are local or so...
im on a 56k ... and that makes a difference... i tried speedtests before and after... the same :( unfortunately ... but i've noticed a significant increase in the loading time of the web sites...

so thanks again,
Kyriacos Souroullas

Try installing the web page tweak but change the numbers in it Windows default is 4 try it at a Max of 8 It's easy enough to edit.
Glad the its working good for you...

[dannjr]

Originally posted by Idiot Savant
Ahh, thnx for the link. :\

Your .BAT works just great :)

Anything else I could drop in to RamDrive to speed up my internet?

B4 this tweak I my com21 normally d/l'd at anywhere from 160kb/s to 280kb/s. Ping times on CS servers ran from 46-112. Havent been online to compare these to the new setting stats, I was in a rush to thank ye :)

Well were's the stats hehehe great to hear :)

Lance I went I saw I posted :)

[darkreign]

excuse my ignorance
but what web page tweak are you talking about ?:)

thanks
Kyriacos Souroullas

[Idiot Savant]

I havent noticed much latency drop, only that the ping NEVER fluctuates... hovering about 5-10ms lower but never going 20ms higher than previous pings... even on madly spiking servers (many people are jealous :) ). Also, on a website (Navas Cable Tuning Guide) they "prove" (Im in no position to disagree) that the system.ini tweak and TTL have no effect on speed. In that case, I just want to know I have my cable as fast as it will go.

Status: @Home COM21 - @Home USB Ethernet Adapter

MTU: 1500
MSS: 1460
RCVWIN: 256960
PMTUDisco: ON
PMTUBlackhole: OFF
BSDUrgent: ON
Windows Scaling: ON
TTL: 64
TCP1323: 1
SackOpts: 1
MaxDupAcks: 3
MaxServerConnects: 16

RamDrive TCP-IP Enabled
Proxy Server Disabled
System.ini Ram Allocation Disabled

Is this as fast as it gets?
Thanx to all the ur33t gurus in advance :)

[dannjr]

Originally posted by darkreign
excuse my ignorance
but what web page tweak are you talking about ?:)

thanks
Kyriacos Souroullas


Web Patch - faster loading of Web Pages
from this page http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/cable_patches.shtml

and heres the download for win98 http://www.speedguide.net/files/PH_Webtweak9x.zip

[lance-tek]

well I am back up after a reformatt, the reason was unrelated to any of this. Just thought of a better way to run my system :)

So now I am ready to try the Ramdisk :)

[Lobo]

Good luck and buy batteries :) :) :)

[lance-tek]

well, lobo I will do my best :)

[darkreign]

here's what it says when windows starts up
---------
E:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\tweaks>net start afd

The AFD Networking Support Environment service was started successfully.


E:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\tweaks>net start netbt
The requested service has already been started.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182.


E:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\tweaks>net start dhcp
The DHCP Client service is starting.
The DHCP Client service was started successfully.


E:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\tweaks>net start tcpip
The requested service has already been started.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182.
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any ideas? should i turn off 'net start netbt' and 'net start tcpip'?

thanks...
Kyriacos Souroullas

[cablenut]

Looks fine Dark nothing wrong. Unless things aren't working :)

[darkreign]

it wokrs okay but i was wondering why it did that
i just rem net start netbt
rem net start dhcp ... it still works... :)
do i need dhcp ?:p

[Idiot Savant]

Anyone know optimal settings for a USB ethernet adapter (@home) ? I dont have an ethernet card and im strapped for $$ so I hope u ppl would possibly know these values as well. they are:

Level for debug messages: 0
Max Transmits: 30
Max TX Frame Size: 1,514
Min Recieve Buffers: 40
NetworkAddress(LAA): Not Present
Num of USB Rcv Buffs: 30
Recieve Buffer Size: 1,514
TX Plug Buffer Size: 4,096
Unplug/Plug on init: YES
USB F/W Replug Delay: 5
USB Read ConCat Delay: 1


Do these sound good? Thnx 4 any help.

[dannjr]

Originally posted by darkreign
it wokrs okay but i was wondering why it did that
i just rem net start netbt
rem net start dhcp ... it still works... :)
do i need dhcp ?:p

If your only running Tcp/ip and are assigned a IP it will still work DHCP is where the machine has to go out to a server and get a IP netbit is for your LAN basically


:) Enjoy

[lance-tek]

ok Ramdisk works :D :D :D

but NSLI won't load now, I had it on start up, so how do you get the start up proggies to load?
:confused:

http://jeremyvlantz.homestead.com/files/error.jpg

it was the only thing i had on start up besides ICQ, but ICQ started up fine:confused:

[dannjr]

Originally posted by lance
ok Ramdisk works :D :D :D

but NSLI won't load now, I had it on start up, so how do you get the start up proggies to load?
:confused:

http://jeremyvlantz.homestead.com/files/error.jpg

it was the only thing i had on start up besides ICQ, but ICQ started up fine:confused:

Theirs a second half or you can pull the start files of the proggys and have the .BAT start em but it will be tricky

[lance-tek]

Dannjr-

I'll wait for the second half to be safe :)

Thought I told you to go to bed :D

[dannjr]

Originally posted by lance
Dannjr-

I'll wait for the second half to be safe :)

Thought I told you to go to bed :D

Lance I have your fix :)

[dannjr]

As promised
http://www.broadbandnuts.com/ramdisk.shtml
With new stuff in it to make things that start up with windows 2k work like Zone alarm and such :)

[lance-tek]

it is sooooooo nice :)

[Idiot Savant]

Its a shame the win98 one isnt nearly as clean cut, or pieced together. Also the fact that its for DIAL UP.... :) dann itd be cool if you made one for 98 that showed WHICH drivers you needed and a step-by-step :D It took me awhile to sift through posts till I figured out how to make mine.

[cablenut]

JonG is cooking up something and I'm not sure exactly what it is :)

[ASenna]

I'm another W2K user who's tried setting up Ramdisk for tcp/ip as per the recomendations here and only has seen a BSOD for my troubles.

It is great concept, but for me, it's still a concept.

I'll keep watching 'til someone comes up with a solution.

[lance-tek]

for 2K it is done and works great if you can follow instructions :) not rippin on ya just lettin ya know :)

there is a link above and one in my sig

[dannjr]

Originally posted by Idiot Savant
Its a shame the win98 one isnt nearly as clean cut, or pieced together. Also the fact that its for DIAL UP.... :) dann itd be cool if you made one for 98 that showed WHICH drivers you needed and a step-by-step :D It took me awhile to sift through posts till I figured out how to make mine.

I dont remember but I did sift through it for 98 almost 2 weeks ago here bud http://www.broadbandnuts.com/ramdrive9x.shtml

The only differnce is
copy c:\windows\system\vudp386.bak X:\vupd.386
make it reflect this
"rem copy c:\windows\system\vudp386.bak X:\vupd.386"
and the same with this
copy c:\windows\system\wshtcp.bak X:\wshtcp.vxd
Personally I have all the drivers running on my win98 and SE box's and the win2k ramdisk as well they run great

[dannjr]

Originally posted by ASenna
I'm another W2K user who's tried setting up Ramdisk for tcp/ip as per the recomendations here and only has seen a BSOD for my troubles.

It is great concept, but for me, it's still a concept.

I'll keep watching 'til someone comes up with a solution.

As lance posted its already been weeded through
here http://www.broadbandnuts.com/ramdisk.shtml Based on everything that Cablenut Philip Donald_K and myself have done on this. :)

[ASenna]

:rolleyes: Lance,

I have followed your steps exactly and what works for my W2K sp2 laptop does not work for my W2K sp2 desktop. I am treated to the very lovely BSOD when the desktop goes to load tcpip.sys and I get the same error messages that a couple of other w2k users have reported here also.

I'm gonna do some comparisons here between lil' puter and Mr. 'puter.

:confused:

[lance-tek]

odd, I gotta ask.........did you reboot after the BAT before making the CMD? and did you change the CMD file location like you were supposed to do?

jsut a few things that I can see being oversights

[dannjr]

Originally posted by ASenna
:rolleyes: Lance,

I have followed your steps exactly and what works for my W2K sp2 laptop does not work for my W2K sp2 desktop. I am treated to the very lovely BSOD when the desktop goes to load tcpip.sys and I get the same error messages that a couple of other w2k users have reported here also.

I'm gonna do some comparisons here between lil' puter and Mr. 'puter.

:confused:

Keep in mind that you have PCMCIA in a laptop and that they will also neet to start. Thiers is your differnce. if your running the added plugin/snapin with the win2k ramdisk it should all start together.. without; you probably will get BSOD's on the laptop..

Let us know

[ASenna]

:rolleyes: Lance,

I am in .bat mode on both 'puters. I have not made the switch to .cmd on either one yet.



still :confused:

[lance-tek]

so you would have the .bat in your startup then.... can you take a second look at your reg and make sure you set both the Tcpip and the AFD to the \??\R: ( or whatever you set the RD to)
aslo doublecheck the settings you put in the reg for the RD , it is too easy to hit a key and not realize it, so by some freak accident something may not be correct

[ASenna]

:rolleyes: Lance,

I went back in and re-checked everything for at least the sixth time and no luck.

Mr. 'puter's face turns bright :( when tcpip.sys starts to load.

[cablenut]

Paste what's in your bat file please

[ASenna]

:rolleyes: Lance,

Here's my bat...

@echo on

copy e:\winnt\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys Z:\
copy e:\winnt\System32\DRIVERS\afd.sys Z:\

net start afd
net start tcpip
net start dhcp

ipconfig

@pause

Nothing but strike outs with this one.

:confused:

[lance-tek]

so you run windows from the E: ????? and the ramdisk is on the Z: ???? what is your C:?

[ASenna]

:rolleyes: Lance,

My C: is for a seldom-used WinMe. I have a Ghost of E:, so I'm kinda tempted to complete the setup and see what happens.

I do appreciate your time with this.

:confused:

[lance-tek]

ok so what is on the D: here? I am trying to find an error pretty much and you said that you placed the *.bat into the startup folder correct? Just makin sure :)

[ASenna]

C: WinME OS (fat32), D: WinME progs (fat32), E: W2K OS (ntfs), F: Files (fat32), G: Files (ntfs), H: Files (ntfs), I: w2k progs (ntfs)

I tried the full setup (.cmd...snap-in...re-boot...followed by...BSOD :( ...IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL...)

:confused:

[lance-tek]

I am not certain of this but pls try it ok :)

you posted:

net start afd
net start tcpip
net start dhcp
in just that order,

the guide says
net start tcpip
net start afd
net start dhcp

in just that order

the problem may be the starting order of the programs, I hope that's what it is..........if not I am lost on what it could be :(

So give this a try and I will keep my fingers crossed for ya-

[ASenna]

:rolleyes: Lance,

I'm pretty sure I tried it in tihe original order, but I'll give it a go...

Thanks again...

:confused:

[ASenna]

:rolleyes: Lance,

Well, I flipped tcp and afd and....drum roll please...SOS...BSOD.

I dunno. I'm :confused:

[lance-tek]

hold on I will get the man to look and see. it may take him a while to get here though

[lance-tek]

originally posted by dannjr Keep in mind that you have PCMCIA in a laptop and that they will also neet to start. Thiers is your differnce. if your running the added plugin/snapin with the win2k ramdisk it should all start together.. without; you probably will get BSOD's on the laptop

he is kinda busy right now, but said for you to look at this again :)

[ASenna]

:rolleyes: Lance,

My W2K laptop (lil 'puter) runs the tcp/ip ramdisk just fine, its the W2K desktop (Mr. 'puter) that's the problem.

Oh well. Any help is very much appreciated.

I'll keep looking...

:confused:

[dannjr]

ASenna
What starts up on the desktop when you try to load the ramdisk.. and is the NIC a USB or PCI..
I'm trying to figure out what is in your startup that is causing your BSOD Things that I know of can be firewalls, antivirus, or programs that look to connect to the web right away rather than waiting for the machine to finish starting up.. A peice of spyware that connects to the web could cause this..
Have you tried to run the plugin since you already have this running on the laptop the plugin in MMC will make sure it starts before its fully started.. The draw back is that you wont know till you reboot if its working and if it doesnt you might end up in safe mode editing out the snapin file you would just edit it by typing

edit tcp.cmd this will open the editor in the DOS/CMD safe mode screen wipe the info and restart.

Im looking at all posibilitys on whatever is starting up

[lance-tek]

the man has spoken :rotfl:

[ASenna]

dannjr,

My system has two pci nics and I use ICS. I am on @Home, but do not use their software. I'm not running anitvirus, firewalls or any other prog that attempts to gain net access at startup. The BSOD doesn't hit until the .bat attempts to load tcpip.sys.

I went ahead with the full setup (snap-in) and re-booted...with the same BSOD as with the .bat...IRQL_NOT_LESS OR EQUAL error.

:confused:

[dannjr]

ASenna I think we have it but not possitive
In the registry under Tcpip\parameters set IPEnableRouter = 1 dword / decimal

that will be this path done manually in the registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters

Let us know crossing my fingers on that only had one other with ICS on dual NICs.. If it makes a differnce it worked :)

[ASenna]

OK...

Changing IPEnableRouter to 1 and I'll be back in a minute or so...

Fingers are crossed.

But not too tightly...;)

[ASenna]

dannjr,

Same sad story. I made the Tcpip\parameters\IPEnableRouter change and still got the good ol' BSOD.

Tried flipping .bat start order and another BSOD.

Very :confused:

[dannjr]

ASenna
What happens if you remove ICS from the machine....

Also we might have to have you email me a copy of the tcpip key along with the AFD key and ICS key I think it would be safe to say that ICS could be the problem but wont know till you try it removed.
If nothing else we could setup the proxy its just as good as ICS in some cases better. if that is whats doing it

see if you can email the keys in tack to me I probably wont get to them tonight

dannjr@broadbandnuts.com or
dannjr@microsyspro.com

[dmsmed]

Will this Crazy man tweak cache web pages and DNS addresses as well or do I have to install this tweak on a proxy and set up the proxy for web page and DNS caching?

[dannjr]

dmsmed
I Never put it on there. the ramdrive is to your imagination

[dmsmed]

Granted using a ramdrive would increase the speed at which a web page would load because you are cutting the hard drive out of the picture but:

1. Wouldn't it be even more beneficial to have the DNS address cached as well? That way each time you click on a link within a given website you wouldn't have to wait for the DNS lookup.

2. Caching each web page itself would allow you to be able to instantly load a page when backing up (example after going down the wrong path at a given website).

How could I do this?
Am I the only person who sees this?

[Khad]

OMG this is the longest post ever! 4 months!

ok that's about all i wanted to say bye now :sleep:

[cstumph]

I created a Ram Drive following the Cablenut guide but must have did something wrong! When I reboot windows 2000 which is on the D drive (windows 98 2nd ED. on C drive) I get the following in the script:
D:>copy c:\winnt\System 32\DRIVERS\Tcip.sys R:\
The system cannot find the path specified
D: copy c:\Winnt\System 32\DRIVERS\afd.sys R:\
The system cannot find the path specified
D:\>net start tcip

If I hit enter it creates errors from start to finish. This is my first time creating a ram drive can someone please help? The Ram drive is listed under my computerr as R and is 1 MB
Gurus' please take pity on this dummy and help me out!
Christopher
One side note I am still using Dial up will this Ram Drive help? I live in the mountains annd High Speed cable and DSL is not available yet.

[lance-tek]

well if 2K is on your D: then that should be the copy target not the C:

wait a sec though lol

are you making a RamDrive for 98 or a RamDisk for 2K?

they are two completely differnet concepts :)

[Buggyman]

Over here--->CableNuts Software Forum (http://www.broadbandnuts.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=000031)

[lance-tek]

thx buggyman, I hadn't been there in a couple of hours and didn't know it was there:)

the man got it :)

[Buggyman]

Originally posted by dmsmed
Granted using a ramdrive would increase the speed at which a web page would load because you are cutting the hard drive out of the picture but:

1. Wouldn't it be even more beneficial to have the DNS address cached as well? That way each time you click on a link within a given website you wouldn't have to wait for the DNS lookup.

2. Caching each web page itself would allow you to be able to instantly load a page when backing up (example after going down the wrong path at a given website).

How could I do this?
Am I the only person who sees this?

It has been said that when you do that the ramdrive becomes full and starts dumping the drivers out. If that happens then you'll see All kiinds of blue screens So it's a catch 22 deal.
The Best thing is to have it set as it is till someone figures out how to eliminate that problem.

[dannjr]

dmsmed
Please let me know if you figure it out im real busy working on a program with Jon right now when that is finished I will see if I can spend some time on that.. or one of us. :)


Khad
yeah it is getting biig aint it I think there was one just a touch bigger


cstumph
Dude asked and answered check your other thread
Let us know if its working

[Buggyman]

Originally posted by Buggyman
Over here--->CableNuts Software Forum (http://www.broadbandnuts.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=000031)

Lance... the Guys has been real busy these days and don't come over here that often.
If There is a question concerning any of the BroadbandNuts programs they need to be posted over here--->CableNut Software Tech Support (http://www.broadbandnuts.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=5)
I think you will get a quicker response from them and we must remember that while Speedguide and CableNut enjoy's a good relationship .. we do need to keep the questions concerning the softwares in the right BB forums ok?
Thanks Buggy :D

[Lobo]

^

[darkreign]

;0

[imtim83]

the pics didnt come out and would love to have them so i know exactly what i am doing because i would love to see how it works and how much it speeds stuff up.

any help appreicated
thanks

[Lobo]

The directions can be found on help page below in sig, the next page at top, click on help guides, you will see it :) :)

[lance-tek]

not to step on Lobo but you can just click on the link in my sig to go straight to the 2K RamDisk :)

[dannjr]

:D WoW

[imtim83]

dannjr
this tweak really works but i seen more than 2 files on the ram drive on some pic is there only post to be really 2 files for it on win2k pro to speed up web sites , etc a lot?
or can i do anything else to speed stuff up ?

[ExtremistAS]

Sorry about asking this if it has been asked already but I don't want to read the other 24 pages to see if it has. But are you able to do this tweak on Win98SE yet? If you can how do you? Thanks

[dannjr]

imtim83
As things go right now.There can be. just be careful of the size of the drive. did you go through the guide on here for 2k
http://www.broadbandnuts.com

ExtremistAS
Yes there is on this link
Was just updated today
http://www.broadbandnuts.com/ramdrive.shtml

[imtim83]

dannjr
i went thru there and followed it like it said.
seems faster for sure but what else can i do thats not on there to speed me up more maybe?

[imtim83]

btw i made the size of the ram disk as 2MB is that ok ? or should it be bigger ?
and i have a problem where the internet isnt up when win2k pro boots up i hae to double click on my TCP.CMD file in C:/ to get my internet to work everytime i bootup win2k pro.
:(

thanks

[lance-tek]

didn't notice but thx for puttin me on the page Dan :) I feel like special lol :D

[dannjr]

:D

Originally posted by lance
didn't notice but thx for puttin me on the page Dan :) I feel like special lol :D

[dannjr]

Originally posted by imtim83
btw i made the size of the ram disk as 2MB is that ok ? or should it be bigger ?
and i have a problem where the internet isnt up when win2k pro boots up i hae to double click on my TCP.CMD file in C:/ to get my internet to work everytime i bootup win2k pro.
:(

thanks

imtim83
Yes its fine to set it larger esp. if you plan to add to it later.
Sorry didnt answer this sooner but I got busy

[Mr.Dave]

Originally posted by jsiu
this sounds good!

but how do you make a ramdisk? is there somewhere in win2k that does this? or one need a 3rd party software? (if so, which is the best?)

second question: where is the registry entry to change the location of the file?

thanks
DiDO!

[Lobo]

On help page below in signature click, on 1st page at top under help guides, you'll see it:)


Well it was their, their updating so check back in aliitle and it will be up sir:D :D

[dannjr]

Not sure why but I recieved a email saying that someone posted here.

[Idiot Savant]

same :(

oh well, perhaps you people will think of another "crazy man tweak" SG has been without one for some time.

[Buzz_Hog]

I've installed Ram Drive and followed the setup guide, but when the batch file runs, it says it can't find the drive specified (which is X:) the ramdrive I'm trying to create. Can someone help me with this?

ICQ 10115558
buzz@sassyart.com

Thanks in advance,
Buzz

[haplofxp]

will this tweak produce a better ping in online games like counter strike? and if so what are all the steps into making it work under windows98se...sorry for the question but reading through all these pages makes my head spin. if there is already a guide written pls tell me the link.

thx for the help.

[winuser]

hi,
this ramdisk is ok, but can you explain how to move the cookies to it and how to save and reload the temp internet files if logged off and on.Tried a batch file with xcopy command, it saves all on the ramdrive exept the temp inet files?
Thanks in advance.

[funky]

Open IE, tools, Internet options, settings for temp. files, redirect it to the Ramdrive.

[winuser]

that doesn't move cookies nor history.I did some regedits but
not enough I guess?
Do you know how to synchronize those when logging of and
load them when logging on.I've read about an image file, any idea?
Thanks alot
regards

[winuser]

Eugene, Administrator of AFD tweaks! I redirected afd & tcpip's as you described.Works very fine!!!:), the services which don't start automat. should they be set to ''on demand'' in xp device manager, hidden devices -instead of system to make them start
Does dial up needs dhcp, netbios or dns?
Do you know how to get an x121 number from ones isp tel no?
Thanks in advance,

[funky]

Originally posted by winuser
that doesn't move cookies nor history.I did some regedits but
not enough I guess?
Do you know how to synchronize those when logging of and
load them when logging on.I've read about an image file, any idea?
Thanks alot
regards

1) there's a software available that can load the image when started up but it's shareware and you can only use it 100 times. If you want to try it out, reply and I will post a link.

2) If you read the updated Tutorial at www.broadbandnuts.com you will see a batch file which can load up the 2 TCP and AFD images in Ramdisk.

[funky]

Originally posted by winuser
Eugene, Administrator of AFD tweaks! I redirected afd & tcpip's as you described.Works very fine!!!:), the services which don't start automat. should they be set to ''on demand'' in xp device manager, hidden devices -instead of system to make them start
Does dial up needs dhcp, netbios or dns?
Do you know how to get an x121 number from ones isp tel no?
Thanks in advance,

What do you mena by not starting automaticlly?

Also, I believe dialup need all three, and I don't know what you meant by x121 number...

[winuser]

the dhcp ,dns clients, inet-firewall, netbios helper, ipsec Services don't start in computer management, services.Device manager's hidden recources show afd, tcpip with a yellow circle, I've tried all the diff. kind of startups eg boot, automat. demand, system.No luck.Strange thing is that those non pnplay "hidden devices" describe that they're not working well, but in the second tab the service was started! while they've this yellow mark and in computermanagement services they havent started.I've made the services to autorecover(restart themselves) with an interval of 6 min for each three times, no luck either.
In gpedit.msc I made the system wait for the network before showing desktop/logging on, they're running synchronic.

I tried to find a kind of macro which dubbelklicks them services to start them but I hope you can help here, cause its a very good tweak!!!!
Daniël Koolen
Holland

[funky]

Originally posted by winuser
the dhcp ,dns clients, inet-firewall, netbios helper, ipsec Services don't start in computer management, services.Device manager's hidden recources show afd, tcpip with a yellow circle, I've tried all the diff. kind of startups eg boot, automat. demand, system.No luck.Strange thing is that those non pnplay "hidden devices" describe that they're not working well, but in the second tab the service was started! while they've this yellow mark and in computermanagement services they havent started.I've made the services to autorecover(restart themselves) with an interval of 6 min for each three times, no luck either.
In gpedit.msc I made the system wait for the network before showing desktop/logging on, they're running synchronic.

I tried to find a kind of macro which dubbelklicks them services to start them but I hope you can help here, cause its a very good tweak!!!!
Daniël Koolen
Holland

Ack.. can't understand what you are trying to say...:p

Put your problem in say.. 2 sentences and I will figure it out for you. Just name the problem, don't worry about the details yet.

[winuser]

6 services don't work capiche ? :)


no details, yeah right thanx anyway

[Subtext]

Hey everyone! Merry Christmas! :D

So, I don't get something: (I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS CAREFULLY)

I disabled the ramdrive like 10 minutes ago. Uninstalled it. Drive Z is gone. I cannot access it anymore. I didn't need to reboot, it just unloaded the driver. And nothing happened.

I even moved the 2 sys files away from \systemroot\system32\drivers\ - and deleted them from the 'dllcache' folder so that WFP would not be able to reinsert them if the system searched for them on that path... still, nothing happens. I have like 7 IE windows open one of them is a download window, I'm also downloading something from an FTP I'm connected to 2 IRC networks and to ICQ... and everything works fine.

Why?

I mean if it really mattered where we stored the 2 files... if the system really needs to access them from time to time and not just loads them up into memory or caches them, if they indeed speed up broswing and other activities, shouldn't I get an error message or something? A BSOD?

Have I proven that this does not do anything? Or am I just lucky that my 466Mhz Celeron with its 256 megs of RAM and 10-12 running programs (browser windows are separate processes) doesn't swap often?

Help me here guys. I'm on Windows XP.

[joecool169]

Windows XP Update :

Installing the Ramdisk sample driver in a NTFS only machine might make it unusable. To resolve this problem make the following change:

While you call the IoCreateDevice function (RamdiskAddDevice function in pnp.c), change the device type from FILE_DEVICE_VIRTUAL_DISK to FILE_DEVICE_DISK and recompile the driver. After you install the driver, restart the system in order to access the Ramdisk through Explorer.

Ok I followed the directions ok till I got to the part where the ramdisk don't work on xp can someone help?

OS is Windows xp pro hard disks are NTSF

[Aethaellyn]

I'm running Win98SE, and I've had success with the patch with an improvement of 10-20 ms on average. I really like this Ramdisk idea so far, so would it work if I were to throw other drivers into it? What else is as commonly accessed as the TCP/IP drivers?

[funky]

Originally posted by Aethaellyn
I'm running Win98SE, and I've had success with the patch with an improvement of 10-20 ms on average. I really like this Ramdisk idea so far, so would it work if I were to throw other drivers into it? What else is as commonly accessed as the TCP/IP drivers?

I am coming up with ideas..;) Wait for a week or two and check the front page for an article on what else you could use.

[BoGGy]

if your isp gives you a max speed of 500kbps ram disk cant change that speed....it's not up to ram disk, it's your internet provider who decides it

[s;acker]

I must have missed something somewhere i have the tweak runing but it seems i have to start the process manualy each time i turn on my box XP Pro. There does not seem to be any noticable gain at this time. Now starting up the process each time is a Pain any ideas on how to get it to work automaticaly.


Slacker:D

[TuLSaViPeR]

rockin

[Lobo]

This thread is so old, if you want never instructions from same people go to for 9x and 2x:

http://dslnuts.com/ramdisk.shtml

[TuLSaViPeR]

You are right it is old, but I went to another Forum and told some guys that you could load your TCP/IP in a RAMdisk and they thought I was SCREWED UP!!

ALso what is good here is the discussion factors because you can see what problems people had and how they fixed them.

[TuLSaViPeR]

You are right it is old, but I went to another Forum and told some guys that you could load your TCP/IP in a RAMdisk and they thought I was SCREWED UP!!

ALso what is good here is the discussion factors because you can see what problems people had and how they fixed them.