Hallo jimbop,
Thank you (and everybody else) for the interesting contribution!
I did have fun with these two tools (which I did not know they even exist) and spent some time trying to understand how they work (despite your invaluable explanations on how to set things up). I think IQ-tests became obsolete now that we have things like that...
One thing you may need to add to your explanations (if I got it to work right),
After having:
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3. Mount Image. All you need to do is click on Gigabytes under Size of virtual disk and enter 1 in the text box. This will create a 1Gb virtual RAM drive with the drive letter F
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You need to have turned UAC (User Access Control) off to make this happen, otherwise you may get message "permission denied"
(after the creation I turned UAC on and the system was working without problems)
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4. Format the new drive in My Computer as NTFS
5. *Copy* whichever files you want over to the new RAM drive
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When finished copying all the files you want, unmount the drive and REMOUNT ticking the option LOAD IMAGE TO RAM
This will make now everything stay in the RAM of your PC (without this option ticked, the image is loaded from your hard disk, which make no difference in performance).
You can check if this worked as expected by watching the memory usage in your Task-Manager window.
This program is great because the ramdisk-image is ready on your hdd and with one commands it loads it on your RAM, great job, I had no idea that somebody had done such a good job!
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Also during installation of the Link Shell Extension, if you have problems, you may have to disable your Antivirus for a moment (it solved my installation problem).
Now, coming to the juicy part, no it did not make any difference to my performance
On second thought, I think I never had stutters...
But the accumulated experience and knowledge was great
~S~