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cmpm:
Does cache programs help anything with windows 7?

Such as -

http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/products/ooclevercache/

And other cache types as well, I was just looking at this one.

hpearce:
It's more like to have some effect if your PC is low availble memory ... otherwise, what it can add to your system may be somewhat dubious.

Windows management of resources is pretty good these days.

cmpm:
Thanks, I have enough memory but a 6 year old computer.
I figured it to be using more resources then I it would save.

Bamse:
Let 7 handle that but if you have old and expensive ram to spare you could investigate advantage of a Ramdisk. You can easily throw more at ramdisk with help of tools like Junction Link Magic More so if you believe in everything counts theory ;) In most cases it will probably be better to let Windows handle ram/cache. I use Vista and it stinks with SuperFetch cache but 7 is much better. Pretty sure you need special requirements to warrant tools like that O&O thingy. Ramdisk does work if you have plenty of ram though.

Look at CleanMem http://www.pcwintech.com/cleanmem if you believe in O&Os idea of "and thereby increases available main memory resources" Free...

cmpm:
Yes, I've tried CleanMem, and it slowed the response time of Firefox then.
Now it's at version 1.6 so I may try it, just to see.
Works different then a cache type program I think.

I wasn't going to buy OO's product, but wanted to know about the cache.
(It has been a 'giveawayoftheday' at version 6 before, just preparing for it to come up again.)
Which, I guess is something like virtual memory on the hard disk.
I'm not sure, so hence the quest-ion.

Doesn't Outertech's Cacheman do something along these lines?

http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=news&id=58

I'm just not so sure about messing around with how my system normally works.
And then have to restore it to it's built in, native, in place already functions.

Know what I mean? :)

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