Suggestion: tweak the Add Cache Device UI

It wasn’t immediately obvious to me while following the installation wizard that the Add Cache Device UI is intended to be used one device at a time. In fact, since I didn’t want to RAM cache (too little RAM available), I spent some time trying to set a zero RAM cache (which it won’t allow), instead of just ignoring that default “Select Device” item, and moving straight on to a Flash drive.

It’s more intuitive when using the “Add.. ” button from the installed Control Panel, but I think the installation wizard could be clearer.

Build 469 released

This build fixes the following issues:

• Important fix for possible BSOD (thanks Greg)
• Uninstall procedure leaves some data and cache files fix
• Service crash prevention (in case of low memory) and additional error event reporting
• Outlook issues fix (#) we hope :)

Sizeable Exclude list window, cache content list

I would like to be able to resize the Exclude list window. I usually exclude lots of directories with useless junk ( I really dont need them cached … i.e. photos, documents). So it would help me a lot. The count of items is 17 at the moment. I am sure that this number will increase in the future.

The second thing I would like to be better is the cache content list. As an ordinary user I want to see only a column with filepath. Also it would be nice to see which media is used to store listed file (just to know that – for a good feeling). Hex addresses really dont say much about it. I realize that you (developers) use this list to control and verify the good functionality – well, do it switchable : users + developers.

No error or non-standard behaviour so far =)

Have a nice day

clipboard not working anymore

when eboostr is enabled on systemstartup, then after some time clipboard is’nt working anymore. the service for the clipboard is loaded. if i copy a text to the clipboard, i cant paste it anymore, paste is grayed out, the same happens with a file in the windows explorer. my os: windows xp sp3.

if eboostr is not loaded (uninstalled for example) the clipboard problem doesn’t appear.

eBoostr devices

More devices ( meaning 4 2GB memory cards ) will be better

or

More bigger memory size ( meaning single 8GB card ) will be better

Minor aggravation

When awaking my laptop out of either sleep or hibernation mode, an Explorer window opens for my jump drive (4GB Cruzer, U3).  Of course, it’s easy enough to close it manually, but is there some way to configure Windows so it no longer appears, or better yet, for eBoostr to automatically do it for me?

Wanted: System Memory Wizard

I think it would be helpful to have a “System Memory Wizard” to help a user know how much of his system memory he can devote to the RAM disk.  In my case (XP Pro, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB HDD) my typical use pattern is to load five applications (Outlook, Firefox, Quicken, Nota Bene, and Libronix) and task switch between them.  What I have not been clear on is how much extra RAM this typical usage profile leaves to devote to the RAM disk.  A “wizard” that would help the user make that decision would be useful.

Such a wizard might work like this: the user loads his/her machine to a typical usage state, the wizard reads the extra memory available, and makes a recommendation as to the amount of RAM to allocate to the file.   This wizard could provide for user input (how much RAM headroom would the user like to leave) in making the decision.

Perhaps this feature is already incorporated, but if so it isn’t obvious from the onscreen presentation.

Thanks.

Reported random read speed of USB hard disk

The reported read speed of my attached devices at present are:

USB flash disk : 25843 KB/s  (approximately matches other speed tests I’ve done on it)

USB external hard disk : 1276492 KB / s (very high).

The external disk is a 750Gb Samsung 7200rpm desktop drive with 32Mb of cache.  I’m guessing that the speed test may be only using the cache and not the physical drive access itself.  However even if this is the case, I’m not sure how it can get a speed this high when connected by USB 2.0.  The maximum linear read speed I can achieve on the drive using USB is approximately 32000 KB/s.

Cache fill

I have 1Gb of RAM, 3G of flash and 8Gb of HDD assigned to EBoostr and the flash and hdd are at 0% however I notice that the RAM fill is gradually increasing as I use my computer and then manually build cache.  I imagine that when the RAM gets to 100% it will start to fill the flash?  On previous versions I have looked at, it seems to fill all cache devices fairly quickly.

I was wondering if this different way of filling the cache is due to the new version’s use with Vista which already has Superfetch and Readyboost.  Should the new version function differently depending on whether it is installed on a Vista or XP machine?

Although the explanation for the new version says that no files stored in RAM are also stored in other cache sources, would it be a good idea to double up the caching so you could take advantage of a kind of ‘RAID 0’ effect when the flash is reading at full speed?  You could also read from an attached hard drive simultaneously for files that would otherwise only be stored in RAM or flash and hence increase throughput further.

Note – the application accelerator seems to chose the wrong name for quite a few applications and I have had to manually add shortcuts instead.  Work in this area would certainly improve the product.

Malfunction in Microsoft Office2003

I was going to store a file of Microsoft PowerPoint.
However, I froze, and it was not possible. The error at that time was written as “491C6409” with a blue curtain.
A computer was rebooted by the same software with the other computers.
The environment of the computer is speed of each high-speed SD card 1GB & USB memory 512MB 4,500 kbyte/s to “MicrosoftWindowsXP ProfessionalSP2” system memory 1,536MB, cash.