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- README for Outer Technologies Cacheman 5.11 for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
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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.
-
- Welcome
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-
- Cacheman is a utility designed to improve the performance of your
- computer by optimizing the disk cache, memory and a number of other
- settings. Cacheman is able to prevent frequent paging to the hard
- disk, resulting in improved performance, system reaction time and
- stability. Wizards and predefined profiles make it suitable for
- novices and yet it is also powerful and versatile enough for the
- more experienced user. Cacheman also corrects generic problems on
- systems with more than 512MB of RAM.
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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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- 5.11
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- - Several bug fixes
- - Optimized profiles
- - More accurate Paging file usage info on Windows 2000/XP systems
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- 5.1
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- - Predefined profiles
- - Extreme recovery mode
- - More tolerant to registry settings damaged by other tweak programs
- - Disable NTFS last access update setting
- - Recover memory now hotkey
- - Optional Log size limit
- - Improved uninstaller (restores pre-installation system settings)
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- 5.0
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- - Complete program rewrite
- - Memory Recovery
- - Profiles (revert back to old configuration)
- - Win NT4/2000/XP support added
- - Wizards (Guide through all settings)
- - CdRom Cache & Icon Cache optimization
- - Improved Name & Path Cache configuration
- - Logging
- - System configuration report creation
- - Several new options
- - New performance settings like IO Page Lock Limit, Disable
- Executive Paging or IO Page Buffers
- - New tweak settings like Wait to Kill App Timeout or
- Filename completion
- - Improved Help File
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- 4.1
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- - Larger Read Ahead and Name Cache settings allowed
- - Unload Dlls setting
- - Stop history graphs when hidden option
- - Some minor bugs fixed
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- Distribution
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- We allow the free distribution of Cacheman, but we retain ownership
- and copyright of Cacheman and its source code in its entirety.
- You may distribute Cacheman only subject to the following conditions:
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- You are allowed to distribute Cacheman through the Internet, BBS's,
- Shareware distribution libraries, CD-ROMs and Magazine Cover Media.
- You may charge a distribution fee for the package, but you must not
- represent in any way that you are selling Cacheman itself. You have
- to inform us before any distribution at distribution@outertech.com,
- we will send you information about new Cacheman releases. Cacheman
- may be bundled and distributed together with other software products.
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- You may not modify the program or documentation files in any way.
- You must include all the files that were in the original
- distribution. You may not decouple or otherwise reduce Cacheman
- to a human perceivable form. You may not sell Cacheman or charge
- a distribution fee, except to recover the media costs.
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- Status
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- Cacheman 1.0-4.1 has been released as Freeware. During the last 6
- months the program has been completely rewritten. We are forced to
- try to get the development costs back. The simplest way for us to
- achieve this would be to disable certain key features or to convert
- the distribution to a time limited version. We are opposed to taking
- the easy way out since we would not like our user base to be reduced
- drastically. Alternatively, we could bundle Cacheman with a third
- party software and receive distribution fees. Many Freeware programs
- are going this path nowadays. We decided not to distribute Cacheman
- in this way since all software bundles we have examined have a major
- drawback - the additional third party software spies out user data!
- (Visit http://www.spychecker.com/ for more information).
-
- After a long discussion we have come up with a unique way to
- license Cacheman:
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- You can evaluate Cacheman for 15 days.
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- 1. Private/Educational usage
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- In order to keep using Cacheman you have to register.
- The registration fee for Cacheman is $10. Since most users cannot
- afford $10, Cacheman has no disabled features and no time limit.
- If you really cannot afford the shareware fee you are allowed to
- use Cacheman as Freeware. All updates for registered users will
- be free even if we should be forced to change the license to
- Shareware only with the next major release.
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- 2. Commercial/Corporate usage
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- If you want to keep using Cacheman you have to pay a $10
- (Single User license) Shareware fee. Multi User and Corporate/Site
- licenses are available on the registration page.
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- Contacting Outertech
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- Program usage and performance related support is only available
- for registered users. Please write to cacheman-support@outertech.com,
- you should receive an answer within 24 hours. Be sure to include your
- customer ID and system information (you can create a report in
- Cacheman's File menu).
-
- Non-support requests like bug reports & comments should be
- send to development@outertech.com.
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- Homepage: http://www.outertech.com
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