Some user comments
I find it almost hard to believe that memory problems were the source of poor performance of my computer, since I have 256mb of PC100 installed. But, as I learned from Cacheman, it was not being utilized properly. Now my computer is faster than it has ever been, thanks to the easy to use wizards to help me set everything up correctly. 3D games always ran fast, but they took forever to load up. Normal programs, such as photo editors, also loaded slowly, but they also caused major disk activity during use. Now everything is fast! No slow downs period, with anything! I would have never guessed that Disk Cache settings were the problem (among other settings as well). Thanks alot for a superb product, I am recommending this utility to everyone I know!
L. Ledbet
In my opinion, Cacheman 5 should be a standard part of Windows. It certainly stabilizes it to the point that this PC has become virtually a no-crash/no-hang machine.
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So: with Cacheman 5, once again: This Aptiva Rocks. Stability is just not a problem anymore, and even the Internet runs faster than before - no memory problems.
Fred Deacon
Toronto, Canada
I just had to write to thank you for your product. I have a Compaq with 800mhz PIII. The problem was a majority of the time when I attempted to burn a cd I would get underwrite errors even if I was not running any other programs. I thought I could correct this by adding additional ram. After adding another 256mb (bringing my total to 384mb) I would still get the write errors. I heard about Cacheman on CNET and thought I would give it a try. Let me tell you, I wish I had known about this before I went and purchased the additional ram! Since I have loaded Cacheman I have burned over 50 cd's and have not had a single error. But that's not all. I decided to really push it and see what my computer could handle. I added a new burner. I upgraded my burner from 4x write to 24x write. Then started the test. While burning a cd I....
(1) Signed on to AOL (man this takes allot of juice)
(2) Watched music videos online.
(3)Downloaded mp3 files
(4)Created and printed jewel cases
After starting these programs my cd was just about complete and I still had a large amount of available ram. I know that without Cacheman this wouldn't have been possible at all. I barely could burn a cd let alone try to create a jewel case or surf the web, that was a guaranteed burn error. And I enjoy watching my friends facial expressions when I run other programs while I burn a cd. They warn me not to touch anything while I'm burning or I'll have to toss out another cd-r. And I say "No I won't" and I don't!!! Thanks again.
Mark A. Sheets
I just want to say that I love your new program Cacheman 5. Cacheman 4.1 was great and made a huge improvement on my system - my PIII 1GHz w/256MB RAM seemed to be more responsive than my friends Athlon 1333Hz w/512MB RAM (or at least it did until he downloaded the program), I was overjoyed when I read that there was a new version. I have yet to see any major performance differences (between 4.1 and 5) but the interface is much better, it gives me quick "wizard" solutions when I need them and the ability to tweak the settings to perfection myself when I have the time. I haven't had the cash to register yet (tuition sucks it all up) but I plan to do so as soon as I get a chance. You guys have created a very professional product that I intend to recommend to all my friends, keep up the good work.
Luke Tudor
I just wanted to say thanks to all involved who made such a great product. I appreciate this because it extends the limited Win9.X environment much further in dealing with memory efficiency. Usually when you hit 512ram at that point you either deal with the non efficient Win9.x or move to NT. For this very reason I am grateful because the resource requirements for NT/XP leap several levels with questionable return.
I highly recommend your product to others that could benefit from such an excellent utility application.
Allen Roller
I recently purchased Lionhead's great game Black and White and installed it on my new Dell Dimension 4100. I thought I'd have a smooth experience, but my DVD-ROM and hard drive continually ran and turned fluid gameplay into a slideshow. With all the attempts on my part and even Lionhead tech support, I was only able to reduce the problem, but didn't eliminate it. After downloading and installing Cacheman 4.1, I was able to completely eliminate the problem and every piece of software I have benefits from Cacheman. I highly recommend this product to people as a powerful alternative to memory upgrades.
Matthew Peak
Hi there,
This is not a support request but I'd just like to give you some feedback on Cacheman 4.1.
I read about it on download.com in their essential pc utilities so I downloaded it to give it a try. Even though I have 256mb of RAM, Windows 98 (se) seems to manage it atrociously. I frequently have to reboot due to memory shortages, normally IE5 breaks the system. Also, I thought unconnected, IE5 & Outlook 5 take an age to start up. When I click on them, it opens the window but the actual tool bar does not load for a few seconds and the harddrive thrashes around trying to load them up. I always thought this was a registry error, so I have tried various reg hacks to sort it.
Up steps Cacheman. I couldn't believe it when IE5 & Outlook snapped open as quick as you like, as they should do on a 800mhz system. It had never occured to me that the memory could be the problem.
Thanks for the product,
Pete Gibbins
Applications Development
Thomas Cook G&FS
I suffered about a network slowdown issue for weeks until I was referred to Cacheman. Problem solved. Thanks! I just can't understand why WinME had this problem in the first place.
Here's some history:
This has been driving me nuts:
When I copy and paste files from other computers on my network to the MSI K7T Turbo-Raid, it starts out like gangbusters then drags to a crawl and the mouse will become slow as if it's stuck in mud. Once I cancel the file transfer, the mouse moves freely again. This only occurs ONE WAY, when I working from the K7T-R. If I send files to the same machine from other machines, transfer is smooth and so is the mouse.
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Any ideas would be highly appreciated. I've hammered this out for days and I'm ready to play for a change! Thanks
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I had this same problem with WinMe and 256 MB ram, download the program "Cacheman" and change the default windows cache settings, when i tried this the problem went away. Just try the power user template :-)
Cacheman is freeware, download here :
http://www.tweakfiles.com/memory/cacheman.html
Ciao,
remco
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You nailed it! I just want to extend my deepest appreciation as I have been hammering this one out for weeks, and I'm not one to ask for help until I've absolutely reached the end of my rope (and I was about to hang myself with it).
I never considered it could be a disk cache issue but I gave Cacheman a shot as a last ditch effort before formatting and going back to 98se. Bingo. My mouse is as free as a bird and file transfers across the network are smooth.
Eddie Puryear
Thanks for Cacheman!!
I was having major problems burning CD's, playing 3D games and was also troubled with slow HD access times when cutting & copying within CoolEdit but thanks to your piece of wizardry, all my problems have been resolved. No more failed burns, no more unexpected crashes in Tomb Raider 4 and best of all, my 700MHz Athlon now acts like it should, fast and transparent to use.
Best regards.
Mick Heyes
Hey, this program is absolutely fantastic. Yesterday I downloaded the version 4.0 of cacheman. I choosed the first option for novice and intermediate users and I gained 40 Mb Ram. I have a Celeron400, 96 Ram,Voodoo 3 2000..... . Without this utility only 15 Mb Ram were left. In other words this is a super-great-excellent-fantastic program. I have seen a good improvement in speed in games like Red Alert 2, Panzer 3D Assault which require more memory. I tried before other utilities but in vain. At the end I found cacheman. I said in my mind that this will be my last chance and I was victorious. I was super happy.
Cristian Sergiu
Hello Outertech and thank you very very much!!!
I recently upgraded to 768MB ram and experienced dying computer syndrome.
I remembered an article in PCA about Cacheman, so I downloaded it, chose Multimedia for ME, and restarted my computer.
Thank you again, I now have a very fast computer with lots of ram, especially lots of free ram!!!
Thank you and keep up the good work.
Scott Keatinge
Dear Thomas,
Thanx for Cacheman 3.80; my problems seem to be over!
I've been having problems running Photoshop 5.5 on a P-III 750MHz system with 384MB Ram... After scanning and editing only a couple of 35MB-files, Photoshop was always getting slower and slower as available Ram decreased to 0. I had to close the program and start it up every 15-20 minutes, and I was considering buying a Mac G4. But now I can keep my money in my pocket!
Cacheman 3.80 works wonderfully; I'm using settings for "multimedia use" and available Ram has not been less than 200MB since... Overall performance and speed in Photoshop remain constant, even after hours and hours of work.
In one word, it's great! So keep up the good work!
Best regards,
Jeroen Bouman
Installing your cacheman program is almost like buying a new computer. I use to have problems with my John Madden2001 sometimes pausing during gameplay, but after installing your program the game now runs as smooth as silk.
Thanx a million
Stan Rogers
This PC is a bit of an old warhorse - 32MB RAM, P150, bits of it our almost 10 years old so it's often a struggle to run hardcore modern software.
I am a drum & bass producer so as you can imagine I run an awful lot of audio-editing software that this machine can't really cope with. I had a lot of problems with songs skipping, effects not responding quickly enough etc. Basically it was practically impossible to even listen to an mp3 without it skipping every time I ran another program. I changed a multitude of options, tweaked the registry, ran RAM-boosting software and a whole load of other stuff all of which only made a slight difference. After I set Cacheman to Win98 Power User my problems all but disappeared!
You are a genius!
A postcard from Norwich UK is on it's way to you (hope you like it!)
Andy
Thank you for releasing such a great product for free! I have been installing it religiously on the computers I build for work and what can I say? It's GREAT! Not a single customer complaint of out of memory errors! I also don't run out of resources anymore on my own workhorse machine a PIII450 with 128MB.
Thank you.
Andrew
Hi!
I just thought you might want to know that CODEMASTERS (www.codemasters.com a game making company) recommends its customers to use your program Cacheman when they (the customers) have any memory-linked problems with they're very newly released racing game Colin McRae Rally 2.0 .... They seem to like it ALOT!
You might already know this, but if you didn't .... then ... now you know =)
Cheers! / Jonas (from Sweden)
This is really a great little piece of software!!! Today , all my problems seem so far away, yesterday it seem that they were here to stay. Oh I believe in "Cachemanday" (sic The Beatles). Thank you very much!
Dirk Van de Veire
Belgium
First, let me say that your program, Cacheman, is the finest piece of freeware for the Windows system in the entire free world. I cannot say enough about how it has made my system run better. Across the board, system, user, and GDI, have all been increased dramatically. I run many servers through my DSL line, web, ftp, mail, and even a ShoutCast internet radio station, and it used to be that I was lucky to have 78% of my resources free after all those servers had fired up and users were on them. Now, I have...drum roll please... a whopping 90% across the board of resources available. So now when I fire up NetObjects Fusion (my web design program) or Bright (my image editing program) they fire up and respond with a bit more alacrity than before I installed Cacheman. Thanks for making that very fine utility available as freeware, I'm sure that you have gained a lot of good karma through offering such a fine piece of software for free.
John Erickson
Just wanted to thank you for Cacheman. I thought you might be interested in the following.
PaintShopPro has a disk based undo system with quite a few configuration settings. The one I like to use saves each individual paint operation so I can undo one step at a time. The only problem with this WAS that it was slow, I mean sloooooow, so slow that the system would pause for 2 or 3 seconds until it caught up. It would also leave fragments of the mouse pointer on screen until the window was refreshed. In short, I spent quite a bit of time looking at a messy screen and the hourglass pointer. Since setting the vcache with Cacheman v3.51 (4096, 4096, 512, 4096, 96) the problem has COMPLETELY vanished. I get only an occasional flash of the hourglass pointer now, no pointer fragments and no delays. This is a truly amazing performance boost, almost like a processor upgrade. Also, the overall performance of my system in general is much smoother and more responsive.
Mike Christian
Dear Thomas Reimann,
You've just been nominated to received the "Best Guy Award" for 1998. By chance, I purchased a computer magazine that had system optimization software include--namely one of yours. Thanks a whole bunch. Your program which I perhaps have save me hundreds of dollars from having to go to technicians and buying CD's that were lost during a session gone bad. One thing for sure, I no longer received those undesirable "low buffer runs" from my CD program. The first time I installed Cacheman 3.51, my HP8100 CD Writer worked flawless. In addition, when installing software to my system, my CD ROM would just creep as if it was an old guy. I found that pretty strange and all, because I have a 24X CD ROM and from the most part, on average, it runs fast enough to get a ticket for speeding. Out of the 3 biggest problems I had, your program fix 2. Again, your program is wonder.
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Again, I would like to say thank you for making this program--its wonderful.Feel free to use part of this message in any type of advertising to let customer know that its not just some other program looking for attention. And by the way, I will share the good news with other friends and well. If you would like for me to add any comments that you have to my Webster that I'm about to make, feel free to send the comment and as soon as it is posted, I send you the web site address. Thanks Thomas.
Alvin Benjamin, United States Army
Read a CD newsgroup that your CacheMan product was a big help in solving under-run errors in burning... They were right. On my PIII/Win98 system with 256MB, loading your program and setting it for 32MB min and Max did the trick.
Shelle's Internet Design & Consulting
Michelle "Shelle" Feigen
I have just installed cacheman on my system.
For months I have been trying to solve the problem of my 128mb ram being eaten up by a huge cache file. I have read magazine after magazine and installed diagnostics tools of all shapes and sizes to no avail. I have probably wasted more than 50 hours trying to get to the root of this problem. I am really impressed that you have explained what the system does in terms of adjusting the system.ini file. If Microsoft had the same sense of trying to help people understand how their system works instead of blinding us with jargon life would be so much easier. With Cacheman however it's even easier and there's no guesswork involved.
Well Done!
Thank you for solving my biggest computer headache for years.
David Anthony Elmes
Hello Thomas
A few hours ago I installed cacheman on my Windows '95 with update W'98 and..oh surprise...it is the best little tool in that matter, that I've crossed in almost 2 years I'm using my pc...before I sure have tried plenty of other tools, ..more or less efficient..but yours is far out. A friend of mine told me about it and sent me the CD rom from a german pc magazine EXTRA Freeware # 4:My set has never been as fast as after the installation of cacheman and there was no problem with the installation....congratulations!
Ray Irrthum
I wish I had found this superb little util 2 years ago. The cd-writer settings have boosted the performance of my P200mmx,32mb ram system to a very noticeable degree. I had a lot of problems with buffer underrun while burning cd-r`s, cacheman seems to have solved the problem instantly.
Well done. A postcard is on it`s way from Lanark, Scotland.
All the very best...
F.J.
Cacheman has totally revitalized my PC!
Thanks a million!
Colin "Oscar" Smedley.
Just installed it this weekend. Brilliant, I have a PII266 with 128mb and it was running like a dog with 3 legs in Win98. Free memory was never above about 10mb, but now I have setup Cacheman for a power user I constantly have 50-70mb free - result everything runs much faster and applications zip open. Thanks very much - keep up the good work.
Steve Heads
Recently I installed Cacheman v3.60. I'm pleased that the access to my hard drive has diminished markedly. Every so often my hard drive used to be accessed as if by an anti-virus scan, but that wasn't it. That's stopped since I installed Cacheman so I believe it must have been swapfile activity I was observing. Nice to have that annoyance eliminated,especially since my CPU is a desktop sitting right in front of me.
Regards,
Richard Vopelak
I've tried a lot of programs that say they will speed up performance but most of them are just hype. I recently reformatted and my system was running very unstable. I restarted at least 20 times in 3 days. Windows kept using up all my memory and I only had a few programs open. White boxes would come up and say you are running dangerously low on resources and it would give me a choice of programs to close. I would try to close one and windows would lock up. This also happened when I tried to close out some programs that weren't responding using control alt delete and windows would lock up again. Now that I have Cacheman installed again everything is running great. I had Cacheman installed when I first got my computer and totally forgot about it after a few days. Thank you for a stable system once again!
Kyle K.
Dear Mr. Thomas,
Downloaded a few days ago,it's been a great pleasure to install your CacheMan on my computer - before installing my RAM was just disappearing and nothing was left after a few working programs was loaded. It really works fine on my computer with any default settings.
Thank you so very much!
Yours sincerely
Thorben Nørgaard
I just downloaded your Cacheman freeware off the internet after seeing it on the Autopsy Report (via http://www.slaughterhouse.com). This is one great piece of software! Thank you, thank you, thank you. My free physical memory went from 80KB to 6100KB using the low memory setting! I'm going to experiment with the other settings.
Thanks again.
Matt Medena
Hi Thomas,
I think we have corresponded before, about some of your other software titles. I will not bore you with praise, you must have plenty!! You write software that is simple and useful, AND does not fill the hard drive with crap you never use a la Microsoft etc. Please keep me up to date with the stuff you are doing.
Thanx.
Regards,
John May
Thank you for the GREAT program you have written. No matter how much time you spent writing it, it can't be as much as the time I have spent trying to stop Win95 from swapping all the time. And I have 160 MB of RAM!!!VCACHE would regularly use 150 MB (155 MB once) for cache, while making the OS and programs do to swap. Now, with the settings I choose in Cacheman, I no longer use the swap file(except while editing large .jpgs).I never did understand the logic of VCACHE thinking that caching the swap file was faster than just releasing that memory to begin with. Now VCACHE doesn't have a choice in the matter. ;)
Jason Woods
I just want to say how thankful I am for Cacheman! I installed and tried it today and suddenly 9 months of problems with my computer are over. I've had trouble with the memory and I just couldn't figure out what to do to fix it. But a few days ago your Cacheman was in Softseek's newsletter and I thought I's give it a try. And it worked. Thank God! No, thank YOU!
From a happy Cacheman user,
Frode Kløw.
This is just a really quick message to thank you for creating the wonderful 'cacheman'. I installed it a few days ago and am amazed at the results. I have claimed back about 4 - 10MB of memory, and as I use graphics appz such as photoshop an awful lot, this has dramatically speeded things up and just made life a lot easier.
There you go. Huge pat on the back. Well done!
Cary Charles
First of all, thanks for Cacheman. It improved the speed of my system drastically. I'm usually running Delphi, Word, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer etc at the same time and Cacheman improved response times tremendously. A postcard from Enschede, the Netherlands is on the way.
Arjen Broeze
I am a video producer, using Fast Electronics digital video products. There has always been considerable problem in switching between the editing software and the capture/output software in that system, seemingly because Windows 95/98 cannot manage the swap file mess it leaves behind. Among video editors, the controversy has gone on for some time about how to fix the problem, dealing with various placements and size of swap files,even turning it off. (then back on for various operations; a real pain!) When going between the two main applications, Premiere and DVManager, the system must be rebooted just to clean out the cache. Failing to do so will almost always result in a system shutdown. When you're busy trying to put maximum creative energy into a video production, I cannot possibly tell you how much of a problem the constant rebooting is!My first use of Cacheman would indicate that it helps, even perhaps solves that problem. If that is true, that would make whomever wrote this little jewel nothing short of a hero to all of us who edit video on PC's.
Dave Boyers
Plain City, Ohio
I just wanted to tell you that Cacheman 3.5 has made an incredible difference in my systems performance. I had almost given up using the Internet except in the early morning because it took SO..... long to do anything. This computer is an older Intel 100 with only 16 MB of memory. I really thought it was beyond hope! Although my new computer arrives next week, I do not think I'll junk this one as planned. Cacheman really made that much difference.
Thank you
Pamela Dick
Thanks for a great program. At last, a tool that made it easy to get a handle on the elusive MS cache monster. I've been through a variety of apps to "enhance" performance but none have been as effective and as common sense as Cacheman. And it doesn't eat resources!!
Bravo!!!
Jeff Frankhouser
Great Falls, Montana
I just tried Cacheman 3.0 and I must say that it made a world of difference on my 233mhz 24mb computer! Now my computer has some pep in its step! I can't believe just a little 400kb download can do so much good! You program was easy to use too! I especially liked the simple way to set the disk cache ( I.E. Poweruser,Quake2 ) simple settings that a novice can even understand! My hard drive is a lot quieter now.
THANK YOU
David Crocker
I had the problem with runaway disk cache usage in w95. I have 256 MB and I'd have 200 eaten up caching junk I would never need again. Then I would swap constantly. I work with huge multi-image collages (100 - 150 MB). I now have much more free ram.
Brian P. Barnes
Thank you for your programs. As I was one of the fools that actually paid for Memturbo believing that it did something "more" than Cacheman. I ran both programs after a cold boot and discovered that Cacheman was actually more effective than the hyped Memturbo. As I'm under an extremely tight budget, I now regret paying the fee that Memturbo required. I also intend on installing your new ver 3.0 in about a minute - right after I uninstall MemTurbo. I appreciate the quality of your programs and depend upon generous developers like you for many utilities. I use all of your freeware and look forward to what you have coming up next. Your postcard will be arriving soon.
Thank you again...Merry Christmas from Everett, MA. USA
Sincerely,
Paul Pappathan
Dear Mr. Reimann,
This is a small note to say a BIG THANK YOU for Cacheman v.3.7 which I downloaded last night from the freeware segment of CNet. As reviewed therein, your program boosted my system's performance noticeably. I am a management consultant and consequently I frequently run Excel, PowerPoint and MS Project simultaneously. Also, the internet is my primary (and preferred, if you like) communication link with the outside world. So, as you can well imagine, my rather archaic system (I generally use a Toshiba laptop with measly 48Megs of RAM) is constantly overtaxed. After installing and running Cacheman under the power user setting, I find that my system performance is affording me the opportunity to postpone my projected investment in a second laptop. All thanks to you!!! can be sure of one thing, when I do get my new system, Cacheman is going to be one of the first utilities that I will be installing.
Again, thanks!!!!!
Sincerely,
Mana Guha
Two weeks ago, following Fred langa recommendation,I downloaded Cacheman for my Dell Dimension, PIII, 384MB SDRAM, 22.6 GB HD, running Win98 SE. Previous to Cacheman my System Resources had been 67% immediately after Restart and 63% after Internet browsing. Crashes and freezes are things of the past because every 4 weeks I spend 40 minutes with my $19. CD reinstalling Win98 SE, so as to clean files and tweak the system (better than Disk Cleanup).The Cacheman settings are Automatic for Beginners and the readings are 81% , 77% and the Disk Cache are min. 1024, max. 8192. The improvements in Resources have been great and my PC stays always fast.
Efrain Morales
Thomas,
CacheMan immediately proved what a hideous burden Vcache imposes on most Windows machines. Initially, with standard Windows settings ("let Microsoft decide") my 128mb RAM brought no great performance gains over the 64mb installed previously. After installing CacheMan, and with windows now snapping into place, I tinkered beyond the basic CacheMan settings and got 99mb RAM free. I did not expect this much of an improvement! This will change as my program mix moves over into heavy web graphics, but the benefit is enormous.
Appreciatively,
Brian Graham
Columbia, SC
Thanks a million for the fine cacheman program. I have had a lot of problems with my computer locking up, while working on webpages and jpg images,since I downloaded your program, I have not had that problem again. this is a great program.
Thanks again
Kernel Corn
Clanton, Alabama