Tag: ramdisk

Speed Up Firefox by Running It In RAM

Normally, Mozilla Firefox operates from your hard drive, but it’s possible to run it completely in your system’s memory (RAM). It speeds up your browsing because computers can read and write from RAM much faster than it can read and write from the hard drive. The following instructions will walk your through a configuration with Windows.

Steps

1. Download and save Portable Firefox onto your Desktop (see Things You’ll Need below). Double-click on the ZIP file and extract the contents of the archive to the folder “C:\PortableFirefox”. You can use a different directory, but you will have to adapt the rest of this article to that directory.

2. Download RAMDisk and save it to the same location as the ZIP file (see Things You’ll Need below). Double-click RAMDisk.exe. This is a self-extracting archive. When asked where to save the extracted files, save them on your Desktop. This creates a directory called RAMDisk. Read More»

Posted in Firefox | 2 Comments »

Getting that tweak xp ramdrive to work

I have never successfully gotten the ramdrive to auto install using the program, I’ve always had to do it manually, so do it that way.. here’s how, taken right from the help menu. Please note: before you do this you may want to go to “my computer” .. click on “tools” .. “folder options” .. click the “view” tab, and make click on the tab to show “hidden files” before proceeding to make things go smoother. Read More»

Posted in Hardware, Software, Windows XP | No Comments »