Ramdrive with WindowsXP

[fred]

Does anyone know how to get a ramdrive with WindowsXP?
XP comes with what appears to be a ramdrive driver,
windows\i386\ramdisk.sy_ (although the Win95 version was
called ramdrive.sys, and it was a larger file). XP also
comes with zero-byte autoexec.bat and config.sys files in
the C:\ directory, but I haven't been able to get either
of them to execute on bootup. I tried moving them to
c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs\
startup, but I got no response from them in that folder
either.

Does anyone have the solution?

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

fred wrote:

> Does anyone know how to get a ramdrive with WindowsXP?
> XP comes with what appears to be a ramdrive driver,
> windows\i386\ramdisk.sy_ (although the Win95 version was
> called ramdrive.sys, and it was a larger file). XP also
> comes with zero-byte autoexec.bat and config.sys files in
> the C:\ directory, but I haven't been able to get either
> of them to execute on bootup. I tried moving them to
> c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs\
> startup, but I got no response from them in that folder
> either.
>
> Does anyone have the solution?

Hi

There is nothing included with Windows XP for a Ramdisk, but there are free and

not-free solutions available, here are some:

Improve your IE, downloads and FTP performance with Ramdrive in Windows
2000/XP.
http://cyberwizardpit.net/article3.htm

AR RAM Disk (free RAM Disk Driver for Windows 2000/XP)
http://www.arsoft-online.de/products/product.php?id=1

RamDisk XP
http://www.superspeed.com/ramdisk.html

Tweak-XP Pro
http://www.totalidea.de/frameset-tweakxp.htm


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