Cacheman 7 for Windows Vista
I’ve been a fan of Cacheman from the very beginning. It’s an essential install for me on every copy of Microsoft Windows I own. Until recently, Windows Vista was unsupported – but they’ve just announced / released Cacheman 7 today! It’s also forward-compatible with Windows 7:
Cacheman is an application designed to improve the performance of your computer by optimizing several caches, managing RAM and fine tuning a number of system settings. Auto-Optimization makes it suitable for novice and intermediate users yet it is also powerful and versatile enough for computer experts. Backups of settings ensure that all user modifications can be reversed with a single click. Cacheman runs on Windows XP/Vista/7.
Trust me – if you use Windows, you want this.
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6 Comments
Michael Henley
May 19th, 2009
at 6:35am
Still doesn’t look to be ready for prime time on my Windows Vista SP1.
1. Cannot call up the program on screen.
2. only tracks 2 of my 4 cpus (Phenom II X4) in the task bar.
3. locked up the first time I tried to uninstall.
It MAY be actually doing SOMETHING, but I have no way of telling or making adjustments, and when the uninstall blows up, I’m very suspicious. (It DID finally, I think, uninstall.) I usually trust the Lockergnome seal of approval, but not this time.
Trust me, I DON’T want this!
Steve Voss
May 19th, 2009
at 7:40am
I’ve been waiting freaking 3 years for it. Was already thinking it’s vaporware (was supposed to come out in 1997). I missed Cacheman a lot, but it didn’t work with Vista x64. Playing around with it right now. Looks like a real step forward to the already great CachemanXP. The new memory management looks very interesting! I also like the redesign, it’s more user friendly.
Outertech Support
May 19th, 2009
at 8:05am
@ Michael
By default the tray icons track only the first 2 cores, so the tray area is not messed up with a lot of icons (the third icon displays free ram). This is no bug. It can all be configured on the options tab or by right clicking any of the Cacheman tray icons (a balloon tip is displayed on the first start that explains it).
Since Cacheman Control did not start at all, it looks like some compatibility problem. We had ~1000 Beta Testers, but no beta test can prepare for 100% of all hardware/software combinations. The uninstall problem the user encountered is just because the uninstaller starts Cacheman Control to restore any changes Cacheman has made, and since Cacheman Control could not start on that system at all, there is another freeze.
The proper way to handle this is to contact support@outertech.com with the hardware description and we will provide specific instructions how to create debug data files that help us solve any problems (which from past experience with CachemanXP we usually do within 48 hours).
The official release is today in the evening, and by tomorrow we will have numbers of the problematic systems. I’m convinced it will be max 1 system in 1000.
Dieter Hoffman
May 19th, 2009
at 8:57am
Finally! I begged Outertech to get the Beta version, to no avail. Have it running on my new notebook. Looks great so far.
Daniel Case
May 19th, 2009
at 4:06pm
Very nice, works perfectly on my dual-core :)
Hadn’t actually heard of Cacheman before now…thank you very much
ChrisP
August 1st, 2009
at 7:22am
Just bought cacheman for my Win7 PC — it’s brilliant. Freed up another 500MB of RAM (only 600MB was free before out of 3.1GB recognised by windows). Good job guys (and gals).