I suggest we give Eboostr 3 a stylish Vista-like look. We’ve noticed that the very best software out there has a pleasant look, yes ? So if we are going to help develop one of the best software products, it should contain this feature. After all, first impressions last forever.
Applications found list does not show all necessary programs which I would like Eboostr to accelerate .
Moreover, I chose a program from it, but they DID NOT appear on the Accelerated applications list ! I tried again after restart, just in case, you know, but with no result again. Serious issue , which needs immediate resolution.
At startup, the Control Panel successfully starts up, except it reports that the service is not started.
In the Services list, eBoostr service is set to automatic, but fails to start when manually started.
“Could not start the eBoostr Service service on Local Computer. The service did not return an error.”
Also attempted running the exe referenced EBstrSvc.exe to no effect.
Examining EBstrSvc.exe using Dependency Walker reveals a missing dll:
Shlwapi.dll > Apphelp.dll
Is this dll supposed to be included with the distribution?
Speed test manually aborted after 93 cycles
Speed test is not working in a way I can interpret. I let it run for 93 cycles over about 1/2 hour and finally aborted it. Here was my results screen.
Any comments?
Despite some issues, Eboostr 3 RC definitelly deserves positive feedback after all. After I set things right, I experienced a faster bootup, but, most importantly, I have many programs scheduled for startup. Some of them used to start VERY slowly, thus making performace sluggish. Given the fact I am a computer specialist, I do serious things on my PC like programming / beta testing and such.However, startup was a real pain for me. No more, I’d like to say.No more – with Eboostr 3 ! Everything now starts faster and continues working smoothly – something I’ve never experienced before on my comparatively old PC ! When I first installed Eboostr 3, I couldn’t imagine I would get such an awesome performance improvement. Thank you very much and keep up the good work !
Immediatelly after a speed test, I received a C++ Runtime Library problem message. After that, Eboostr crashed. Moreover, after the crash PC performance slowed down considerably for the next 4 or 5 minutes. I couldn’t even start Task manager to restart my PC. I barely managed to start Task manager, eventually, and restart. Seriuos issue indeed !
Please correct it.
Immediately after a speed test, I received a C++ Runtime Library error. Then, the program crashed. I had to start Eboostr again. Please corrct this issue.
Builds cache too slowly. Improving cache building algorythm could be very useful.
Well, I managed to get it working somehow, but now I canot select the maxim storage capacity offered by my usb memory stick using the selection screen. It’s got 1 GB , and I can only select 960 mb.Strange issue indeed.
I’m running Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit on a laptop with 4GB of RAM, originally I was just using a class6 SD-Card solely dedicated as the eBoostr cache, and I did notice a significant performance gain both in normal operation and in system startup.
When I read Build 482 optimized RAM for startup, I allocated 512MB out of 4GB of system memory for cache in addition to my 4GB SD-card cache, and the system seemed to boot up slower than when I was just using my SD-card.
I’m just guessing here, but since RAM contents are cleared when the system is completely shutdown, then populating the memory cache is loaded from the eboostr.dat file on the hard disk, and it seems slower because it is just like starting a computer without eBoostr, where all files are loaded from the hard disk into system memory, in this case into the memory cache allocation from the eboostr.dat file. So if this is the case, then memory cache is only beneficial once the cache has been populated from disk already, which is after the computer has booted up. It seems that reading small random startup files are much faster from flash memory than directly from hard disk especially if the disk is fragmented, hence the bootup of a system is faster when startup files are read from flash memory media. So I dont understand how memory cache speeds up bootup time.
I removed the memory cache allocation and am just using the SD-card as my cache device again, and the bootup is back to what it was before allocation the memory cache.
Again, Im just guessing here, someone please correct me if I am wrong.
