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- README for OuterTech Cacheman 4.1 for Windows 95/98/ME
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- Copyright (c) 1997-2001 by Outer Technologies.
- All Rights Reserved. Other brands and their products are
- trademarks of their respective holders.
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- Welcome
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- Cacheman is a utility which tweaks the Disk Cache settings of
- Windows 95/98/ME and prevents frequent swapping of the data to
- hard drive resulting in an improved performance, system reaction
- time and even stability. Besides this Cacheman corrects also
- generic problems on systems with more than 512MB of RAM.
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- What is Disk Cache?
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- Disk Cache is a part of RAM that acts as an intermediate buffer
- when data is read from and written to file systems on secondary
- storage devices.
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- The Disk Cache driver stores the most recently accessed data in
- RAM. When a program needs to access new data, the operating
- system first checks to see if the data is in the cache before
- reading it from the disk. Because computers can access data from
- RAM much faster than from a storage device, disk caching can
- significantly increase performance.
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- Status
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- Cacheman is Freeware. You may use this software on any number of
- computers for as long as you like.
- The software is NOT Public Domain software.
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- Distribution
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- You are hereby licensed to make as many copies of Cacheman as you
- wish, give exact copies of the original package to anyone and
- distribute the package in its unmodified form via electronic means
- (Internet, BBS's, Shareware distribution libraries, CD-ROMs,
- etc.). You may charge a distribution fee for the package, but
- you must not represent in any way that you are selling Cacheman
- itself. Cacheman may be bundled and distributed together with
- other software products (the same conditions do still apply),
- but please email us at distribution@outertech.com first.
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- Installation
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- To install Cacheman run setup.exe.
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- Version History
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- 4.1
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- - larger ReadAhead and Name Cache settings allowed
- - Unload Dlls setting
- - stop history graphs when hidden option
- - some minor bugs fixed
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- 4.0
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- - completely redesigned gui
- - customizable monitoring functions and history graphs for mem,
- disk cache, swap file and GDI resources
- - tray icon monitoring
- - read ahead optimization
- - conservative swap file usage setting
- - improved optimization values including new sound
- recording preset
- - better optimization remove function
- - automatic reboot
- - greatly improved help file
- - WinME support
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- 3.80
- - disk cache settings can be saved to/loaded from
- a config file
- - improved cache values
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- Contacting Outertech
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- email: cacheman-support@outertech.com
- web: http://www.outertech.com
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- Sincerely,
- The Outertech Support Crew
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