A replacement for Superfetch in Vista?

By streetwolf | January 11th, 2009 | 2:03 pm

I am trying out the 3.0 beta in the hopes that it can replace Superfetch which I find quite annoying.  SF will cache everything even very large files like my Ghost images and My Virtual Machine images.  In otherwords it’s not selective.

I was hoping thateBoostr would allow me to only cache the files I want into RAM.  While there is an exclude feature it is very difficult to set up a ‘whitelist’ by using an exclude list.  I reccommend adding a whitelist feature that will only cache what I want to cache.  I have no use for the Readyboost like function only SF.

Also, is eB like SF in that it gives up RAM if it is needed by a program or the OS? 

So far I really haven’t noticed any real speed improvement.  Is this because my programs are coming from disk instead of RAM?  I just want to cache to RAM not to disk.  Can this be done?

One Response to “A replacement for Superfetch in Vista?”

  1. Bernie
    Jan 11, 2009

    “I was hoping that eBoostr would allow me to only cache the files I want into RAM. ” It does! Just go to “Options” -> “Exception list”. There you can define all the file types you don’t want to be cached.



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