When active, SuperSpeed cache and RAM disk products will visibly impact values displayed in the "Performance" tab of Task Manager. Both memory and CPU statistics will be affected. The more work the cache or RAM disk perform, the higher the CPU utilitization. This is because our products trade CPU resources for disk resources.

The memory resources for our products' caches and RAM disks are allocated from physical memory - not from the operating system's paged or non-paged kernel memory. When an allocation is made from physical memory, it directly affects the following values:

Physical Memory - Available: The amount of physical memory (main memory or RAM) currently available for use. When a RAM disk or cache is created, this value will decrease by the size of the RAM disk or cache plus a smaller amount for overhead.

Commit Charge - Total: The total amount of virtual memory currently allocated to programs and the operating system. Virtual memory includes physical memory allocations and memory that has been "paged out" to the paging files. When a RAM disk or cache is created, this value will increase by the size of the RAM disk or cache plus a small amount for overhead.

PF Usage: This name is misleading. This value is the same as "Commit Charge - Total" above.

The answer to this question depends on the computer's motherboard and how it and the operating system are configured to manage memory. SuperSpeed products utilize only those resources the operating system recognizes and makes available. The operating system depends on the motherboard's chipset and BIOS to manage memory present in the system.

If "Task Manager" or the "General" tab of "System Properties" show well under 4 GB of RAM (typically 3.25 GB), first try updating the system's BIOS. Microsoft provides a Knowledge Base for further steps that you can take to make more main memory available to the operating system.

In some systems this problem exists because their motherboards are limited to a 32-bit physical address capacity and therefore can only access 4 GB total physical memory. Although the processor may have the capacity to address much more, if the motherboard or its chipset support only a 32-bit physical address space, that's the system's limit.

A computer with a motherboard containing 4 GB of RAM (the system's "main memory"), plus a video adapter with its own RAM, plus other devices requiring additional memory address space, has more than 4 GB of physical memory. In a computer limited to a 32-bit physical address space, not all this memory can actually be addressed. In that case, the BIOS/chipset maps the smaller devices into the physical memory address space first, and what's left is mapped to the main memory. In effect, a portion of the main memory ends up being hidden by all the devices in the system which also contain memory and need part of the 4 GB physical address space.

1. Start the computer.
2. If there is an extended POST and BIOS period, wait until it nears its end.
3. Press F8 (for Windows startup options) once per second.
4. Select "Safe Mode".
5. If the computer does not startup successfully, try "Boot using 'Last Known Good Configuration'".
6. Uninstall the incompatible disk management or backup software, or uninstall SuperCache II or SuperVolume.
7. Restart the computer.

1. Start the computer.
2. If there is an extended POST and BIOS period, wait until it nears its end.
3. Press F8 (for Windows startup options) once per second.
4. Select "Last Known Good Configuration (your most recent settings that worked)".
5. If the computer does not startup successfully, try "Boot into 'Recovery Console'".
6. Uninstall SuperCache II or SuperVolume.
7. Restart the computer.

1. Insert the USB drive in the broken computer.
2. Boot the broken computer into Recovery Console. Typically this is done by booting with the installation CD.
3. Cd to "%SystemRoot%\system32\config".
4. Copy the file "system." to "system-backup.". This will be the backup copy of the system hive.
5. Copy the file "system." to the USB drive.
6. Shutdown the broken computer and remove the USB drive.
7. Insert the USB drive in the working computer.
8. Open "RegEdit", and click on "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE".
9. Select "File\Load Hive..." from the menu. Open the "system." file on the USB drive, and give the hive key a unique name (eg. "special").
10. Edit each Control Set present in the "special" hive key:
1. Select a "ControlSetXxx" key and navigate to "ControlSetXxx\Services\SscVf"
2. Double-click on the "Start" REG_DWORD value.
3. Change the value to "4".
4. In the same "ControlSetXxx" key navigate to "ControlSetXxx\Control\Class\{71A27CDD-812A-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F}"
5. Double-click on the "UpperFilters" REG_MULTI_SZ value.
6. Carefully delete the "SscVf" text from the list. Do not leave any blank entries except at the end.
7. Repeat steps a - f for all ControlSetXxx keys.
11. Click on the "special" hive key. Select "File\Unload Hive..." from the menu.
12. Remove the USB drive from the working computer and insert it in the broken computer.
13. Boot the broken computer into Recovery Console.
14. Copy the "system." file from the USB drive to the "%SystemRoot%\system32\config" folder, overwriting the original file.
15. Restart the broken machine.

1. Right-click on "My Computer" and click on "Properties".
2. Click on the "Advanced" tab.
3. Click the "Settings" button in the "Performance" box.
4. Click on the "Advanced" tab in the "Performance Options" dialog window.
5. Click the "Change" button in the "Virtual Memory" box.
6. In the "Virtual Memory" dialog window
1. Select "RamDisk"
2. Select the "Custom size:" radio button
3. Set initial size and maximum size to be just a little smaller than the size of the RAM disk. Tip: Immediately above "Custom size:" is "Space available:" which is the size of RAM disk.
4. Select the drive that currently has the paging file.
5. Select the "No paging file" radio button.
7. Click "OK".
8. Restart the computer for the new settings to take effect.

Important: Pagefile support is available with RamDisk Plus 9 running on Windows Vista or XP and RamDisk Plus 8 on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.

1. Go to "Start -> Control Panel -> Internet Options".
2. Click on the "General" tab, if not already selected.
3. Click the "Settings" button in the "Temporary Internet files" group box.
4. Set the slider under "Amount of disk space to use:" to the size of the RAM disk, or less.
5. Click the "Move folder" button. The "Browser for Folder" dialog box will appear. Select the RAM disk, then click OK.
6. Click OK on each open dialog box.

Move the print spool folder to a RAM disk.
If you've set up a Windows XP system to act as a print server on your network, you can improve the print server's responsiveness. All you need to do is move the print spool folder from its default location to a RAM disk. The performance gain comes from separating the management of the potentially huge spool file from the same drive on which the Windows system files exist.

To move the print spool folder to a RAM disk:

RamDisk 8.0 - The only control is to enable or disable creation of the '\temp' folder when the RAM disk itself is created. When enabled, the '\temp' folder is created immediately after the disk is formatted. Then the image is 'sealed'. Every time the machine starts up the RAM disk will start up with the contents of that image.

RamDisk Plus 8.0 - You have complete control over what folders and files are present in the RAM disk when the machine starts up. First, create the RAM disk. Second, create or copy the desired folders and files to the RAM disk. Third, save the RAM disk's image. To 'seal' that image, do not select "Save at shutdown". Every time the machine starts up the RAM disk will start up with the exact same saved contents.

1. Right-click on the disk or folder you wish to share, and select "Sharing and Security".
2. Select "Share this folder" or, if already shared, click on "New Share".
3. Enter the new "Share name" and a "Comment".
4. Set "User limit", "Permissions", and "Caching" as required.
5. Click "OK" to create the share and close the property page.