First Steps

After starting Cacheman for the first time look at the values on the Information Page. For optimal performance you should have quite a lot of Free Physical Memory and a Disk Cache of at least 4MB. The Virtual Memory usage should not be larger than your total Physical Memory amount. If the GDI resources sink below 10%, Windows 9x/ME can become very unstable.

You should now optimize your system and configure Cacheman options. Click on the Preset and select one the presets. The Settings Page is not available on Windows NT4/2000 - you can use Cacheman only to monitor Free Physical Memory and Virtual Memory Usage on these systems.

On the Options Page you can set the monitoring intervals. The Load Cacheman with Windows and Start Hidden options are disabled by default. Cacheman needs not be present in memory all the time for the optimization to work - it's only needed for the monitoring capabilities. Leave the 2 checkboxes disabled if you do not want to use the monitoring functions. If you enable these options Cacheman will start automatically on the next windows boot and hide into the system tray. The Tray Icon will display the Free Memory amount in MB. To configure the display go to the Options Page. To unhide Cacheman's window double click on the Tray Icon or select Hide/Unhide from the Tray shortcut menu. To bring Cacheman's window to front single click the Tray Icon.