ok fine

New release 485 has fixed all problems on laptop acer 2920, acer 3100 and my 2 phenom computer seems to be very fast good release make it final

Thanks a lot

486beta: problems with Systray-Icon

Upgrade from 484 to 486 was successfull, no problems.

But after booting my computer I noticed, that the eBoostr Systray-Icon has no tooltip anymore and does not react on left or right (double-) click.
It is possible to start eBoostr Control Panel from Windows startmenu or a similar shortcut on the Desktop and the Control Panel, once shown, works correct.
Using File > Minimize to Tray closes the eBoostr Control Panel but still leave the systray icon without function. Closing Control Panel (File > Exit) also closes the systray-icon. Restarting Control Panel and minimizing it shows again the systray-icon which is working correct now and has also a tooltip.

I rebooted several time: from starting up my PC  5 times the systray icon is “not working” about 3 times.

But the systray-icon animation works always, even if I cannot open the Control Panel and get no tooltip, the icon still shows the load status as usual.

WinXPsp3 on AthlonXP3200/1,5GB DDR-Ram with NVidia Geforce 7600GS AGP-card using Nvidia driver version 6.14.11.6921 from 5th December 2007 (I do not like the newer Nvidia drivers which do not have the option to display overlay windows (videos) on the 2nd monitor (TV) by default, thats why I still use the old driver)

Suggestion : Wildcard exclusion for Folders also

Hello,

Just like we have the Wild Card support for File names in exclusion list  (*.mp3) etc, it will be good if we can have the Wildcard exclusion of Folder also.

For example, giving *songs* should exclude all folder which has ‘songs’ in the folder name.

Thanks.

Total cache size don’t exceed 4GB on NTFS

I use 16GB USB memory(NTFS formatted), and I gave 15000MB to eboostr.

But “cache fill” has not never exceed 18%(=2700MB), normally 14-15%

gave 4096MB(of 16GB USB) to eboostr, it became 100%.

Are there any limitations of total cache size?

Setup file of beta 486 corrupted

After downloading I get the message that the setup file of beta 486 is corrupted…

486 performance, suggestions and curiosity on marketing issues

Great, Version 486 raised my disk performance considerably compared to version 484.

Statistics:
Direct Access: 35.424515 MB/s
Cache Enabled: 51.318626 MB/s

This is a laptop 8GB internal SSD running a 512mb cache on a class 4 Kingston SDHC. I’ve noticed cache building has become even faster and I don’t have to manually add OpenOffice to the startup list.

Current caches are:
Windows Explorer
Media Player Classic
OpenOffice Base, Writer, Calc, Impress
Photoshop 6.0
ESET Smart Security
VMC Mobile Connect (3G Modem Driver)
Mozilla Firefox

SpeedMeasure Firefox Test:
Direct Access: 1.73s
Cached: 1.17s
Cache Hits: 91%

Program load times generally shorten significantly after caching.

Suggestions:

1. Probably want the “boost meter” icon in the system tray to have some functionality, such as displaying cache statistics upon mouseover, such as (Active, Y: Cache Hits 40% over 2h 20min) – duration might be helpful for those free trial users whose software terminates function after 4 hours.

1a. Maybe give program access options on right-click, like many common system tray apps – for this program, might include Eboostr Control Panel,etc

1b. Well if it’s already implemented, then the systray is mysteriously dormant on my system! (EeePC701SD, running WinXP SP3) Though the boost meter graphic works.

2. Pre-installation of filename exclusion of cache would be most welcome, otherwise many people will be caching their entire winamp music collection into their flash memory cache which is very wasteful. There is currently no way to delete files in cache that I know of besides destroying the entire cache (correct me if wrong).

Perhaps we can make a listing of “document and media” files that can be excluded automatically?

Mine would be *. mp3, pdf, doc, jpg etc

Might have an install option – automatically exclude media files from cache?

3.Upon installation and restart, Eboostr asks if the user would like to build a cache after assigning the first device. I put “No” in the box but Eboostr started to precache anyway. Quite redundant askance, si?

I would find it more helpful if it would ask the user if s/he would like to assign the applications priority, first.

486 is a very good build – I believe the product is highly marketable should we focus on the concept of being able to cut down loading times by up to 50% especially on resource intensive applications and on older computer systems.

I would however be curious – if I upgraded this machine to 2GB RAM how effective is Eboostr and its semi permanent cache? Is this still a competitive product for its main function of increasing general performance for normal computing functions? Many reviews out on the net suggest that this product would find more acceptance for laptops and older computer systems.

Build 486

Build 486 loads and runs fine so far.  XPP SP3 2GB RAM.

new version where ?

installation of version 485 runs fine on my computer but trying to build the cache the Status changed to “Service not running”. No problem to restart the eboostr Service but same problem running “build cache” again.

I downgraded to version 484 withut problems, running check foor updates no update is found at all (shouldn’t it detect version 485 again ?)

I also used the download link from this forum to download version 486 from the link within the posting: the file size is exactly like version 485, running the installer says “do you want to install version 485” and a file-compare shows not a bit difference in the file compared to version 485 – so I would say it is version 485 ???

I’ve installed Windows 7

Will you release a beta to support it? Readyboost does not support all high

speed USB drives

Doubt

I have excluded data drive as well as DVD-RW drives.  Do you think, eBoostr Creators and Users, the drive cache should be in exclude list too?