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I'm just wondering, is it a good idea to move the system temp folder and temporary internet folder onto a virtual ram drive? i already have my temp internet folder on it, and comes in handy as it cleans fully on startup, besides accesses quicker, have broadband so dont notice much of a difference anyhow. Would it be a good idea to put the system TEMP folder to the RAM disk also???

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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At some point this will cause a problem. I don't know how much memory you have set aside for your ram drive, but in the old days when windows did not work very well with a lot of ram it made sense. I would think that the extra memory that you are using for ram drive would be better used by windows. If you want to clean temp files each time you start, just write a batch file to do this at startup. You could clear cookies, temps and whatever if you want.

Modern machines running with fast hard drives won't really benefit much (if at all) from a virtual drive. They're still used on bootdisks to speed up disk operations there because FDDs are infernally slow.

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Windows memory operations and how temp files are handled are two distictly different things.

With a gig of ram you sure don't have to worry about ram for memory operations.

I can see a number of benefits to having a ram drive used for temp files. Doing this and directing tmp/temp variables speeds up printing since spooling is happening to RAM and not the hard drive.

All temp files are deleted when the system is rebooted or shutdown. No batch files to write or run.

Since ram/drives can't come close to comparing [billionth vs thousandth access time] a "fast" hard drive is SLOW compared to ram.

I don't see how this can "become a problem". Why would windows care if the temp files were written to a ramdrive vs a folder on a hard drive? Fact is it wouldn't.

I would say go for it and report back. I would be curious to the level of optimization you may gain and if you do run into any bugs/issues.

I'm doubtful if the performance gains would be discernible, but by all means experiment.

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First of all HOW DID YOU DO THAT?
i mean how did you move the temp internet folde onto a virtual ram drive?

Trust me guys, I did it.

RAM Disk cost me:
$2.00 for the license.
$90.00 foe addition 512MB, for a total of 768MG
I set 256MB as RAM disk and move the Internet TEMP folder to it.

I can also move System/Application Temp folder to RAM disk, but system may experience problem when intall a program or software, because the installation process may required a bigger space.

Instead I move the temp folders of Applications and System to FireWire Internal Hard drive so system data transfer bidirectional - IDE HDD read and FireWire write simultanous, this would give me more bandwidth and Full-duplex data transfer.

To do this here is the link:
http://www.datoptic.com/PDF/Improve.pdf
http://www.datoptic.com/PDF/Improve2.pdf

With the above set up, there is no computer out there can compare to mine :-)
although I'm running with P3-500MHz, but I can do:
Burn TWO CDs and ONE DVD, listen to MP3, Surf the net, touch-up my Photo with Photoshop and Compress DVD with DVD-Shrink
******** AT THE SAME TIME *********

This is what i call multi-task system.

FWMan