I’ve been testing eBoostr 473 on my Dell Inspiron 530 for over a week now, and I’ve oticed that some of my games run more smoothly. I put eBoostr on an old notebook (and I do mean OLD… I think it was made in 2001). 700mHz processor and 256MB of RAM, WinXP SP3. Anyway, I primarily use this notebook when I deliver pizza’s. I’m in a new area, so I use MS Streets and Trips if I get lost. The program is probably too large for my notebook to handle, but it does run.

I have noticed a slight improvement with the app’s performace. It seems to take awhile before eBoostr realizes what I’m trying to do, but it eventually adapts. My problem, is I’ve noticed that my cursor hangs, sometimes for ten minutes or more. I’m not sure if my Touchpad (Synaptic driver) is going bad, or it’s a problem with the app itself. I’m thinking of temporarily uninstalling eBoostr, to see if this is the problem.

As a side note, I’m using a Lexar Mercury (reads around 14,000) allocated w/1GB to the cache. I’ve also configured 64MB of RAM to the eBoostr RAM drive. I will go so far as to say that I haven’t used this notebook much in the past two years, and it could just need a good re-fromatting of the drive. Will try some basic maintenance and see if this helps. I have defragged the drive (using Diskeeper 2009 trialware), and I know it takes awhile to get the hard disk optimized.

If I do this, I’m thinking of installing Win2000Pro SP4 on the notebook (seems to run better). Will eBoostr support 2000?