http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/tags/windows-7 Beta Testers Forum en-US Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:42:10 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/search.php http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-1091 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:19:33 +0000 PangOS 1091@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <blockquote><p><cite>PangOS <a href="http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-312">wrote</a>:</cite></p> <p>#4<br /> ***************************************************************<br /> -- Assigned 2048MB RAM Cache in eBoostr -- Disabled USB for eBoostr -- USB &amp; SD ReadyBoost (10GB)--<br /> Direct: 30.05 MB/sec<br /> Cached: 353.45 MB/sec<br /> Ratio: 11.75<br /> ---------------------------------------------------------------</p> </blockquote> <p>Still tinkering,</p> <p>Bought an upgrade cpu for my box -Phenom II x4 945 3.0GHz-</p> <p>Results of testing.</p> <p>-- Assigned 1024MB RAM Cache in eBoostr -- Disabled USB for eBoostr -- USB &amp; SD ReadyBoost (10GB)--<br /> Direct: 39.05 MB/sec<br /> Cached: 784.48 MB/sec<br /> Ratio: 20.09</p> <p>Wow!! Considerable increase in cached access.</p> <p>Hmmm, I guess thats what faster CPUs do :p</p> <p>Happy testing guys... </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/great-performance-on-my-windows-7-system#post-1071 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:09:36 +0000 Zorro 1071@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>AMD Dual 4Ghz<br /> 4G System Mem<br /> 250G SATA HD</p> <p>Cached:<br /> 1G Memory<br /> 4G SD Class 6 Turbo</p> <p>Results:<br /> Direct Access 15.9MB/s<br /> Cached: 203.3 MB/s<br /> Ratio : 12.8 !!!! WOW </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/windows-7-ultimate-64-bit-no-eboostr-control-panel-in-system-tray#post-1017 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:07:04 +0000 Darwin 1017@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Just to provide some closure for this: it's a Firefox 3.5/3.6 issue and seems to be quite common. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/windows-7-ultimate-64-bit-no-eboostr-control-panel-in-system-tray#post-1012 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:55:54 +0000 mradr 1012@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Oh ok. Not sure if eboostr should tho. It would need a way to check when explorer.exe went down, but also know if the crash wasn't caused by it.</p> <p>Otherwise there be a infi loop of it crashing if eboostr does by some means crash it. So... I say just manul just restart eboostr if wn7 is not bring it back up for you.</p> <p>Or my 2 cents. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/windows-7-ultimate-64-bit-no-eboostr-control-panel-in-system-tray#post-1010 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:18:22 +0000 Darwin 1010@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Yes of course, you are correct. I wasn't clear enough, either in my intent in posting my previous note or in its content. Explorer.exe crashed and Win7 restarted it for me. Over the past couple of days, this has happened a number of times. My point in posting about it was to indicate that it is most likely the explorer.exe crashes that were causing the eBoostr Control Panel icon to be missing from the notification area. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/windows-7-ultimate-64-bit-no-eboostr-control-panel-in-system-tray#post-1008 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:50:21 +0000 mradr 1008@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>on recovery the eBoostr Control Panel icon is gone</p> <p>What do you mean? On recovery of your own hands or a full reboot? If by your own hands, then no it wont be in there. This is due to you forcing a restart of explorer and not a real restart (should notice a few programs and background services not running too). Otherwise, a reboot should bring everything back. Now the Outlook crashing explorer is another problem all together I would think. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/windows-7-ultimate-64-bit-no-eboostr-control-panel-in-system-tray#post-1007 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:45:40 +0000 Darwin 1007@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Just an update: explorer.exe just crashed (when I attempted to run Outlook 2007 as admin) and on recovery the eBoostr Control Panel icon is gone (though the process is still running). I can invoke it from the Start Menu and interact with it, but even using File-&gt;Minimize to Tray results in it "appearing" to be closed. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/windows-7-ultimate-64-bit-no-eboostr-control-panel-in-system-tray#post-1006 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:22:41 +0000 Darwin 1006@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Hi mradr,</p> <p>Thank you for your response. I *think* I've got this problem sorted out, but am monitoring the situation. A couple of days ago I uninstalled eBoostr, rebooted, reinstalled eBoostr, and rebooted my system. Since then, Control Panel seems to be working fine. A second reboot (after re installation) appears to have solved the problem I noted earlier: I can now use the close button from the application titlebar to minimize Control Panel to my system tray without any problems. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/windows-7-ultimate-64-bit-no-eboostr-control-panel-in-system-tray#post-1005 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:47:43 +0000 mradr 1005@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Darwin could it be your AV is stopping eboostr? You've seen to have problems with it in the past. Also, Chooky had this problem is the past too. It seems just reinstalling it over the old one will fixs the problem (cross fingures?). Make sure you reboot after the re-install. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/windows-7-ultimate-64-bit-no-eboostr-control-panel-in-system-tray#post-1004 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:11:39 +0000 Darwin 1004@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>OK - got my head out of my a... Er, got "proactive" and checked the event viewer. eBoostr control panel threw up an error because of a "Driver Exception in eBoostr Service". Later, it gave this error message:</p> <p>The program eBoostrCP.exe version 4.0.0.545 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.<br /> Process ID: 1e8<br /> Start Time: 01ca98517fb4f6ed<br /> Termination Time: 60000<br /> Application Path: C:\Program Files\eBoostr\eBoostrCP.exe<br /> Report Id: 022bb2e6-044f-11df-a873-001fe1fe8353 </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/windows-7-ultimate-64-bit-no-eboostr-control-panel-in-system-tray#post-1002 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:04:55 +0000 Darwin 1002@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Just to update - the control panel icon only stayed in my system tray until I accidentally closed the main dialog rather than minimizing to tray. Now it's gone for good for this session - I have to start it from the start menu... </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-4-beta-causes-antivirus-scan-to-fail#post-992 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:37:18 +0000 Darwin 992@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Have now followed this up with Sunbelt and it is indeed a problem on their end. In fact, after re-installing eBoost and rebooting, I was able to run a complete scan without error. It was *odd*, though, that VIPRE went berserk on me an hour after I installed eBoostr. However, it appears to have been a coincidence. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/windows-7-ultimate-64-bit-no-eboostr-control-panel-in-system-tray#post-991 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:35:35 +0000 Darwin 991@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Well, due to an unrelated issue, I wound up uninstalling eBoostr and restarting my computer. I then reinstalled eBoostr and rebooted. On reboot, I have the Control Panel icon in the system tray but I cannot interact with it in any way. I manually ran the Control Panel from the Start Menu link and tried to configure caches at which point it crashed. I've started it again and so far all is well. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-4-beta-causes-antivirus-scan-to-fail#post-990 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:35:45 +0000 Darwin 990@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>PS I'm following this up with Sunbelt as well. Reading the forum there, this is possibly an issue on their side. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-4-beta-causes-antivirus-scan-to-fail#post-989 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:32:56 +0000 Darwin 989@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>I run Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and Sunbelt's VIPRE AV and AS. Currently, I am running the latest beta of VIPRE Premium 4. When eBoostr 4 Beta (latest build) is installed, an AV scan terminates with an error (but a very vague message). When eBoostr is uninstalled, but with no caches created, a scan finishes without incident.</p> <p>Anyone else see this kind of behaviour? </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/windows-7-ultimate-64-bit-no-eboostr-control-panel-in-system-tray#post-987 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:13:35 +0000 Darwin 987@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Even selecting "minimize to tray" from the File menu doesn't place eBoostr Control Panel in my system tray. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/build-539-crashed-my-system#post-769 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:22:48 +0000 zenlc 769@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>I'm a new user who decided to give this a whirl on my laptop. I installed build 539 yesterday and everything seemed to go fine until I shut down when I got a blue screen. I didn't have the presence of mind to take a picture of the screen but I believe it was complaining about sy.sys. When I got the computer home and booted I got another blue screen PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. Like wayne, I uninstalled eboostr in safe mode and rebooted - all was good.</p> <p>I tried reinstalling and used a new 2GB USB drive. Again, everything worked, eboostr was caching, life was good until I shut down. It seemed to hang on shutdown and after 15 minutes I manually powered-off. On reboot I got </p> <p>STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error}<br /> The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a statu of 0xc000026c (0x00000000 0x0000000).<br /> The system has been shut down.</p> <p>At this point I went through a couple of cycles installing and uninstalling, each time to get the STOP error on initial reboot. I tried cleaning the registry, I removed the cache file from the usb drive and I tried changing the eboostr service to Manual start, all to no avail.</p> <p>System Specs:</p> <p>Dell Latitude E6400<br /> Intel Centrino VPro 2 CPU<br /> 2GB RAM</p> <p>The drive is encrypted with McAfee Endpoint encryption. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/build-539-crashed-my-system#post-768 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:41:46 +0000 wayne 768@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>win7 x86, upgraded my build 538 which had been working fine, to 539. selected autoconfig, it for some reason decided to add my d: drive (sata hard disk) to the cache list. i allowed that in addition to my memory and usb drive. system crashed after rebuild, on restart would not boot. </p> <p>managed to get into safe mode and remove eboostr. booted fine. reinstalled build 538, system crashed on reboot. went into safe mode, looked at d: drive, deleted the eboostr folder. rebooted OK, seems my system does NOT like having eboostr cache itself on the sata hard drive. it could be because the drive is encrypted with bestcrypt and possibly the bestcrypt driver is loaded after eboostr's?? </p> <p>anyhow, reupgraded to 539 and am being careful NOT to select my D: drive as a cache drive. seems OK for now... </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/not-a-valid-win32-application#post-737 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:01:37 +0000 TKdoc 737@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>I very recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate (Dutch). I first installed EBoostr 3.0.1. But then Office 2007 became instable and failed.<br /> Now I downloaded the trial of Eboostr 4. But installing is refused by Windows 7, complaining it is not a valid Win32 application.<br /> What's wrong?<br /> Tom </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-320 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:30:30 +0000 chooky 320@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Defragmenting HDD's does improve performance. Some defragmenters are better than others. Unfortunately I have never found a good free one. After trying every one available I recommend Disktix products <a href="http://www.disktrix.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.disktrix.com/</a> I own the Ultimate Defrag but also recommend Defrag Express for the budget conscious. Give them a 2 week trial for free and you will see a difference. The first defrag will take a long time. The defragger should then be scheduled to run whenever the PC is idle.</p> <p>PangOS, interesting results! I think the only way to test it properly is with Apptimer <a href="http://www.passmark.com/products/apptimer.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.passmark.com/products/apptimer.htm</a> Make sure to reboot between tests of the same application, it is the first load time after reboot that eBoostr affects the most. Just use a couple of applications such as MS Word or MS Excel. You also have to make sure the application you are testing are cached nearly 100% by checking in the eBoostr Cache Statistics program.</p> <p>I am fairly sure eBoostr does not cache documents. I have read that they made a few improvements to readyboost and superfetch in Windows 7 but I don't think they work anywhere near as well as eBoostr! </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-316 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:04:53 +0000 Zeioth 316@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Thankyou for your answer Andrey, if i wait before to use speed test. I have 5.2 ratio for ram, regardless of the amount. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-313 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:45:57 +0000 Andrey Zarudnev 313@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>About the RAM cache low ratios issues. Please note, that if you disable and then enable it (or resize)--it needs some time to be actually loaded, so please wait for the hard disk activity to stop and only then run the speed check. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-312 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:34:39 +0000 PangOS 312@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Oops, had the usb disabled in eBoostr with those numbers. Let me retest.<br /> #1<br /> ***************************************************************<br /> Cached access with the usb eBoostr (4GB) ReadyBoost (10GB) 92.62 MB/sec<br /> Ratio 3.43.<br /> ---------------------------------------------------------------<br /> #2<br /> ***************************************************************<br /> -- Assigned 2048MB RAM Cache in eBoostr -- Disabled USB for eBoostr -- Disabled ReadyBoost --<br /> Direct: 15.11 MB/sec<br /> Cached: 31.93 MB/sec<br /> Ratio: 2.11<br /> ---------------------------------------------------------------<br /> #3<br /> ***************************************************************<br /> -- Assigned 2048MB RAM Cache in eBoostr -- USB enabled eBoostr (4GB) -- Disabled ReadyBoost --<br /> Direct: 14.86 MB/sec<br /> Cached: 26.26 MB/sec<br /> Ratio: 1.77<br /> ---------------------------------------------------------------<br /> #4<br /> ***************************************************************<br /> -- Assigned 2048MB RAM Cache in eBoostr -- Disabled USB for eBoostr -- USB &amp; SD ReadyBoost (10GB)--<br /> Direct: 30.05 MB/sec<br /> Cached: 353.45 MB/sec<br /> Ratio: 11.75<br /> ---------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p>So according to this, ReadyBoost increased Direct access x2 and Cached access exponentially. (Should I trust this?)</p> <p>Another question is raised in my mind... (Still awaiting the answer on fragmentation):</p> <p>This cached acceleration only serves to *launch* Applications faster? It should also mean applications can open documents faster? Writes to disk remain the same? This may not serve any real purpose for users that launch a set of apps and leave them running, never really launching other apps or relaunching the ones that they already have open.</p> <p>This reminds me of my first experience with Vista ReadyBoost - while playing a game it was very jerky and sometimes unresponsive -. I turned my back on ReadyBoost, however Win7 ReadyBoost did not exhibit this same behaviour, It worked well. So I will continue using it combined with eBoostr.</p> <p>Happy testing guys... </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-310 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:05:09 +0000 byteboss 310@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>On Defragmentation:</p> <p>You may not notice any dramatic effects in performance after defragging, but still there are benfits in doing so. It's a well know fact that heat shortens the life of hard drives (sometimes considerably). If file fragments aren't scattered all over the hard drive, the hard drive doesn't have to work as hard, which means it should run a little cooler. This is especially important for hard drives that tend to run a little on the hot side (or near the maximum operating temperature recommended by it's manufacturer). </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch/page/2#post-308 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:12:45 +0000 chooky 308@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for all the info PangOS! Looking forward to see how you go with the 4GB cache! That is a very good ratio considering you have a USB cache in the mix.</p> <p>The more PC's I try eBoostr on the less faith I have in the Ratio being a good indicator of anything.</p> <p>Today I was at a friends place working on his PC's, he has an old Dell notebook running XP and a new Dell Vostro 200 running Vista. He wanted to upgrade them so we replaced the notebook HDD with a Seagate MOMENTUS 7200.4 500GB SATA 2.5 7200rpm 16MB and the 1GB of memory with Corsair 2GB Kit(2x1G) PC5300 667MHz DDR2 SODIMM. I also installed eBoostr 4 and set up a 800mb RAM cache. The speed test gave a ratio of 19! On the desktop PC we replaced the 1GB of 667Mhz RAM with Kingston DDR2 4(2x2G)PC6400 800Mhz - KVR800D2N5K2/4G. I installed eBoostr 4 and setup a 2GB RAM cache and a 1.5GB USB cache this ratio was 2.1. I tested both C: drives with Crystal diskmark and the notebook HDD was actually faster. The performance difference in both machines was astounding the old notebook was performing much the same as the new desktop! What was even more amazing was that both cheap, low specification, not O/C'ed machines were opening Office apps nearly as fast as my expensive, high specification, O/C'ed beast with SSD's in RAID zero. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-301 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:45:31 +0000 PangOS 301@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <blockquote><p><cite>chooky <a href="http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-297">wrote</a>:</cite><br /> With 8GB of RAM I think your best option would be to use a 4GB RAM cache and nothing else. You may even benefit from turning off superfetch and readyboost. Even Microsoft admit that Readyboost does not do much if you have ample memory.</p> <p>Can you post up some other specs? HDD make and model, CPU, mobo? </p></blockquote> <p>OK, Full Specs<br /> System is O/C'ed</p> <p>ASUS M3A78 M/B<br /> AMD Phenom 8450 Triple Core @ 2.3MHz<br /> 8GB DDR2 800 RAM @ 876MHz</p> <p>HDDs<br /> Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA II 300MB/s 32MB Cache,<br /> Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA II 300MB/s 32MB Cache ,<br /> Hitachi 500GB PATA 133MB/s 8MB Cache,<br /> Western Digital Caviar Blue 16MB Cache 250GB SATA<br /> Hitachi IDE on USB Enclosure 133MB/s 16MB Cache, </p> <p>Flash<br /> ***********************************<br /> Sandisk Cruzer 8GB<br /> Kingston Data Traveler 2.0 4GB<br /> Sandisk SD 16GB</p> <p>Current config and access times.<br /> ***********************************<br /> 1GB RAM (eBoostr)<br /> 4GB Sandisk USB (eBoostr)<br /> 8GB Sandisk SD (ReadyBoost)<br /> 2GB Kingston (ReadyBoost)</p> <p>No pagefile</p> <p>Direct access 25.92 MB/sec<br /> Cached access 325.07 MB/sec</p> <p>Ratio 12.54</p> <p>***********************************<br /> I have had the pagefile totally disabled.<br /> Using a 4GB RAM cache for eBoostr sounds scary due to my usual comfort of having "free" RAM. But I will try it out.</p> <p>I see it was mentioned by someone, but it was on my mind to ask:</p> <p>As we are constantly looking for more acceleration and performance gains, does fragmentation play a part?<br /> Personally I have never noticed any differences in speed after defragmentation and honestly believe that the benefit only applies to persons doing recordings and so on. Would like to know what the dev team has to say about this.</p> <p>Well, back to testing... </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-298 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:26:57 +0000 chooky 298@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Zeioth, How much total memory do you have?<br /> Are you only using a RAM cache? </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-297 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:23:41 +0000 chooky 297@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <blockquote><p><cite>PangOS <a href="http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-293">wrote</a>:</cite><br /> Sorry I forgot to mention.</p> <p>I have 1024 RAM assigned to eBoostr.</p> <p>Win7 x64<br /> 8GB RAM.</p> <p>It all seems alot quicker if I use eBoostr to manage a RAM cache and Readyboost for flash devices. </p></blockquote> <p>With 8GB of RAM I think your best option would be to use a 4GB RAM cache and nothing else. You may even benefit from turning off superfetch and readyboost. Even Microsoft admit that Readyboost does not do much if you have ample memory.</p> <p>Can you post up some other specs? HDD make and model, CPU, mobo? </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-296 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:09:56 +0000 Zeioth 296@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Update: Also with 512mb ram i have ratio 1,5 (extremely low). Sorry about double post. </p> http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/topic/eboostr-and-superfetch#post-295 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:07:56 +0000 Zeioth 295@http://beta.eboostr.com/forum/ <p>Thanks guys, specially sst for your complete description. It's completely true, with 2 gb ram i have ratio 4, with ram 1 gb i have ratio 7.4. seems to be a perfect amount. Now i'll do some tests using apptimer. </p>