README for OuterTech Cacheman 4.1 for Windows 95/98/ME
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Copyright (c) 1997-2001 by Outer Technologies.
All Rights Reserved. Other brands and their products are
trademarks of their respective holders.

Welcome
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Cacheman is a utility which tweaks the Disk Cache settings of
Windows 95/98/ME and prevents frequent swapping of the data to
hard drive resulting in an improved performance, system reaction
time and even stability. Besides this Cacheman corrects also
generic problems on systems with more than 512MB of RAM.

What is Disk Cache? 

Disk Cache is a part of RAM that acts as an intermediate buffer
when data is read from and written to file systems on secondary
storage devices. 

The Disk Cache driver stores the most recently accessed data in
RAM. When a program needs to access new data, the operating
system first checks to see if the data is in the cache before
reading it from the disk. Because computers can access data from
RAM much faster than from a storage device, disk caching can
significantly increase performance.

Status
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Cacheman is Freeware. You may use this software on any number of
computers for as long as you like.
The software is NOT Public Domain software.

Distribution
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You are hereby licensed to make as many copies of Cacheman as you
wish, give exact copies of the original package to anyone and
distribute the package in its unmodified form via electronic means
(Internet, BBS's, Shareware distribution libraries, CD-ROMs,
etc.). You may charge a distribution fee for the package, but
you must not represent in any way that you are selling Cacheman
itself. Cacheman may be bundled and distributed together with
other software products (the same conditions do still apply),
but please email us at distribution@outertech.com first.

Installation
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To install Cacheman run setup.exe.

Version History
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4.1 

- larger ReadAhead and Name Cache settings allowed 
- Unload Dlls setting 
- stop history graphs when hidden option 
- some minor bugs fixed 

4.0 

- completely redesigned gui 
- customizable monitoring functions and history graphs for mem,
  disk cache, swap file and GDI resources 
- tray icon monitoring 
- read ahead optimization 
- conservative swap file usage setting 
- improved optimization values including new sound
  recording preset 
- better optimization remove function 
- automatic reboot 
- greatly improved help file 
- WinME support 

3.80 
- disk cache settings can be saved to/loaded from
  a config file 
- improved cache values 

Contacting Outertech 
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email: cacheman-support@outertech.com
web: http://www.outertech.com

Sincerely,
The Outertech Support Crew