exoticdisease Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 Anyone shed any light on this alleged command? I've heard from somewhere that putting winram into the command prompt in XP allows you to run windows at least partially from RAM. Is there any truth to that statement? If so, is it worth doing, or is it dangerous?Any help much appreciated,Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 As far as I can ascertain, WINRAM is a commercial program, not a Windows command. This being the case, I'm not familiar with this software but, having checked up on it I notice that Google offers links to some dubious (and unsafe) websites associated with its download.In general, these programs that claim to optimise/speed up/turbocharge your computer offer very little in reality. This one may be different but, personally, I would steer clear.If it was as good as it claims, it would be far better known. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted August 10, 2006 Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 I've never heard of WinRAM, but if it claims to run Windows from RAM it's not really doing anything special.All programs are run in RAM just saved back to the hard disk when something is changed.It works like this:You turn your computer on.Your BIOS turns on devices like Hard Drive (HD), CD-ROM, etc..Your BIOS points to the boot sector of your HDYour HD loads a boot loader which calls for the Windows kernal to load into memoryThe Windows kernal loads all extra dll's and services it needs to run into memoryOnce a service or dll is loaded and not needed at the current time it gets saved to the swap or page file.You're programs (including Windows) remain in memory (or swap) until closed, at which point they re-write themselves back to the HD with any changes they have made.This is also how fragmentation occurs. Once a program is opened into memory, and changes something and then is written back to the disk, it is likely to go to a different spot than it came form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exoticdisease Posted August 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 Yes, I googled it myself and found some somewhat dodgy links to things promising to speed up my comptuer by optimising registry settings and other crap...didn't seem at all legit or likely so I ignored it.Does that mean that all Windows commands are actually run through RAM? The only time Windows uses your HD is when you close it down? Or when you close down bits of it? Is there no legitimate way to speed up Windows?Thanks for the speedy and informative replies guys!Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted August 11, 2006 Report Share Posted August 11, 2006 The only way to truly speed up Windows is to upgrade the hardware, particularly the CPU.Are you having problems with the speed of your machine? Is it slower than it used to be? If so, there are a number of things that can be done to get it up to speed again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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