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Speed up Windows XP with Software
I’m very happy to report that Thomas Reimann and his crew have released a new version of CachemanXP (and are apparently working on a Cacheman for Vista, too – which I can’t wait to see). Here’s what’s new in this version:
- Improved Dual Core processor support (Intel and AMD).
- Several new Cache settings and Tweaks.
- Extended Process information.
- Sortable Process list.
- Allows to change CPU Priority of all programs, including system processes.
- Ability to hide Automatic Updates restart dialog.
- Two, fully configurable Tray Icons.
- Auto-Optimize finetuned for latest computer systems.
- GUI redesigned to (optionally) take less screen space.
This has always been one of my favorite Windows tweaking tools (if only due to its simplicity and ease of use). Fits in pretty well with tonight’s discussion on “Dual Core” and what it means to the average user:
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May 25th, 2007
at 9:48pm
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DinoHorse
May 23rd, 2007
at 8:52am
I have been using all those Tweaking optimization softwares for so many years now, and honestly, there is none that really satisfies me. There are always issues, specially when messing with RAM optimization… I will try this one and give it an honest look…
Starvin Marvin
May 23rd, 2007
at 11:34am
Whilst having more than one program or task open at the same time is fairly common these days, it is still rather unusual to run out of available memory. Having polled ten other people (3 gamers, 4 home business/MS Office users, 3 photo/video hobbyists) I could only find one person who has experienced low-memory symptoms as described on the Cacheman website.
Most of the people I spoke with are using 2 to 4 year-old computers with 512MB of RAM. Often running two apps, and occasionally three or four, they told me they have no slowdowns lasting more than a couple of seconds.
Two of us have Athlon 64 cpus, one has Intel Core 2 Duo, and one has a MacBook laptop. The rest are single-core Intel P4 cpus. The gamers (myself included) never leave any major programs running when we launch a 3D game. We all know better!
The only guy who gets significant slowdowns is the MacBook owner. He uses high-end digital SLR cameras as well as film cameras. The photo image files that he works with may be several hundred megabytes in size. Even though he has 2GB of memory he experiences slowdowns lasting several seconds when working with several “layers” of an image.
The MacBook guy and all but two of the other people whom I asked said that if they experienced significant slowdowns they would either close one program, or defrag their hard drive, or buy more memory. In any case, none of them seemed interested in a Cacheman-like program to recover memory.
So I wonder, is there really a big market for programs like Cacheman?