WinRamTurbo Users Guide

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WinRamTurbo is Windows memory optimizer, and File/Disk cache optimizer, and performance booster.

Memory Optimizer

WinRamTurbo releases allocated memory that has been fragmented and left behind once an application has been shutdown which eliminates trash build up, keeps memory free and clean and ends inefficient or sporadic memory access as seen when switching among the different concurrent running applications.

A swapfile (or Virtual Memory) is important because often, the programs we use require more RAM than we have. Therefore, instead of returning an error message and refusing to run, the program can use the swapfile for the extra memory needed.

This is because the swapfile acts as pseudo-RAM by using some of the hard disk space to store the data that would normally need to be stored in the RAM.

File / Disk Cache Optimizer

WinRamTurbo optimizes the file and disk cache to allow sustained rapid access of cached data. A disk cache (also called Virtual Cache or just simply vcache in Win95/98) is important for improving hard disk performance. This is because the disk cache caches or stores data from the hard disk in the much faster RAM so that if a program requires that piece of data, it can just access the disk cache for it, instead of loading from the hard disk.

The disk cache can also read ahead by copying more data than what the program asked for in the assumption that the following consecutive data segment will be needed next. These are some of the methods employed by the disk cache to improve your hard disk's performance.

By default, Win95/98 grabs most of the unused RAM at bootup to use as disk cache. Then, it is supposed to release the RAM used for the dynamic disk cache when a program requires it. This is a rather fine idea as the unused RAM is better utilized as a disk cache rather than just left there.

Performance Booster

WinRamTurbo supercharges your system throughput.

Memory is the main performance problem with Windows operating systems.   Running out of RAM or inefficient use of memory slows your system down to a crawl, especially after surfing the Internet for extended periods of time!

WinRamTurbo reduces General Protection Fault (GPF)/Page Fault errors, sometimes referred to as the "Blue Screen of Death", which would normally cause system crashes, rebooting, and loss of data, if memory was not properly optimized!