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Cacheman

Latest Version:
5.11

Developer:
Outer Technologies

Category:
Utilities

Platform:
Windows 9x, ME, 2000, XP, or NT4

License:
Shareware, Registration Price $10

Rating:
Not rated yet

Date added:
Nov 4th, 2000

Last updated:
Nov 11th, 2001

Review:
Regardless of how much RAM you have, you may occasionally get low memory errors under Windows 95/98. Windows uses a disk cache called VCACHE which uses part of your RAM as a buffer to hold frequently used data. When an application requests data already stored in this buffer, VCACHE provides it directly from there rather than reading it from the disk again. Because RAM is much faster than a hard disk, VCACHE improves performance most of the time. However, VCACHE has no predetermined size and can grow to occupy enormous amounts of RAM. This results in low memory errors, application crashes and even system hang-ups. Cacheman lets you control the maximum amount of memory VCACHE can use so you can absolutely be sure that your applications have enough memory to work with. There are several presets for different types of users such as gamers, cd-writer owners and power users. Cacheman doesn't run in the background as similar memory-freeing applications do. You only run it once, save your settings and restart your computer. Rather than waiting for memory to end, Cacheman eliminates the most dangerous memory consumer right in the beginning before it gets nasty on your system.

User reviews:

Fred (158) - May 14th, 2001
+ Easy to use
+ Not confusing features
+ Plain and simple interface
+ Fast
+ Cheap

- Could use a better instruction booklet.

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Downloads to date:
1588