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AnalogX CacheBooster supposedly works on Windows 7 and allows you to change the system file cache size.
I've found that it edits the C:\Windows\System.ini file with values like:
[vcache]
minfilecache=430592
maxfilecache=2097151
chunksize=1024
However, anything I find online about System.ini seems to be more from the Win95-era....
Does this actually do anything on Windows 7 (or even XP)?
user541686
Posted 2011-05-23T07:46:49.953
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It could be there for backward compatibility. Old software may still look for it, so it's there. – Traveling Tech Guy – 2011-05-23T07:59:47.713
@Traveling: So CacheBooster is bogus? – user541686 – 2011-05-23T08:00:48.893
No, never said that. I meant the ini file is there for backward compatibility. CacheBooster may just be covering all bases in case its run on an older system. – Traveling Tech Guy – 2011-05-23T08:04:47.447
@Traveling: Oh so you mean it might be doing something else I'm not detecting? – user541686 – 2011-05-23T08:11:31.297
I'm sure it does. Probably writes to the registry, and may even touch other system files to achieve what it's promising to do. – Traveling Tech Guy – 2011-05-23T08:14:05.203
@Traveling: I monitored it with Process Monitor and the only change it makes anywhere is the change I have above. – user541686 – 2011-05-23T08:16:40.557
I'd use RegMon to see what it writes to the registry. – Traveling Tech Guy – 2011-05-23T08:18:43.490
@Traveling: Process Monitor monitors the disk and registry. It supercedes RegMon. :P (Btw, gonna sleep.) – user541686 – 2011-05-23T08:19:59.960