During the month of November in 2009, my web statistics software shows that 47% of this website visitor uses Mozilla Firefox and 37.1% uses Microsoft Internet Explorer. When I compared it with last year November 2008 web statistics, Internet Explorer was still at number 1 with 46.8% and Firefox at 43.5%. Firefox has now taken the lead, obviously its because of the browsing speed and also the huge amount of addons for you to install.
As good as it is, there’s still one problem that was never really solved which is after using it for a few weeks or months, you will notice that Firefox starts to crawl. A very good example is when you boot up your computer and run Firefox, then typing a letter in the URL bar will cause Firefox to hang for a few seconds. Obviously you have a huge list of history and Firefox is trying to search for any matches on the first letter that you typed. The huge list of history is stored on a sqlite database file which is located in your profile’s folder. Now if you have a slow hard drive, Firefox will definitely crawl especially when you have a lot of tabs opened. Most laptops even have 5400RPM hard drive and that’s going to make it even worse.
I’ve tried many ways to make Firefox faster such as optimizing Firefox SQLite database, reducing Firefox process memory usage and making Firefox remember less history. They all worked but only for a while. Fortunately I’ve figured out another method which is able to make Firefox perform much faster.
Like I said before, Firefox uses SQLite database and it’s saved on your hard drive. Overtime the database becomes large and your slow hard drive will have a hard time trying to extract information from the SQLite database. If you remembered yesterday’s article on benchmarking 12 RAMDisk software, we can actually put the Firefox SQLite database into RamDisk so that it reads and writes 10 or 20 times faster than your hard drive. Yes, Firefox still takes up a huge amount of memory (currently 300MB and sometimes can go up to 400MB) but it is still fast.
Here’s an example on how I move my Firefox profile to RAMDisk created by Dataram because it has the best performance if compared to other free RAMDisk software and also support all versions of Windows both 32 and 64 bit.
1. Download the latest version of Dataram RAMDisk and install.
2. Simultaneously press CTRL WIN + R to bring up the Run command.
3. Type %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and hit Enter. You should see a folder with random characters followed by .default (For example, 89ns5tbp.default) and that is your Firefox’s profile folder.
4. Right click on the folder and select Properties. Take note of the Size of the folder.
5. Run RAMDisk Configuration Utility from the Start Menu.
6. Set the Disk Size which is the amount of space that you want to create. Do not set it too high because the number will be deducted from your memory. I personally set it to 300MB as I have 2000MB of RAM and my Firefox’s profile folder is only 133MB in size.
7. Select FAT32 Partition. FAT32 is faster than NTFS in small volumes because the structure is simpler and the system does not have to check permissions since there is no controls regulation.
8. Click Start RAMDisk button.
9. Go to Load and Save tab. Check the 3 option, “Load Disk Image at Startup”, “Save Disk Image on Shutdown” and “AutoSave”.
10. Click the Save Disk Image Now button and select OK. Step 9 and 10 is very important because if you don’t save the image, your Firefox profile will be lost when you reboot your computer.
11. Finally, click File from the menubar, select Save Settings and click OK.
You’ve successfully set up RAMDisk and there should be a new drive letter on My Computer with only 300MB of disk space or the amount that you’ve set. Now you will have to copy your Firefox’s profile folder to the RAMDisk and configure Firefox to load your profile from there.
1. Simultaneously press CTRL WIN + R to bring up the Run command.
2. Type %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini and hit Enter.
3. A notepad should appear with profiles.ini being loaded. Edit the path like the example below and save. Replace the “Profiles/” at Path with the drive letter that has been created by Dataram RAMDisk.
Change Path=Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default to Path=E:\xxxxxxxx.default
4. Make sure that the value for IsRelative is 0 and NOT 1. An example is IsRelative=0
5. Again simultaneously press CTRL WIN + R to bring up the Run command.
6. Type %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and hit Enter.
7. Copy the xxxxxxxx.default folder to the new drive letter created by RAMDisk.
You can now run Firefox with everything being the same! Everything is now automated and there is nothing that you need to do. Just enjoy the super fast Firefox!
Nicely, but as Temporary Internet Files are also on the ramdisk. These files will be saved in the ramdisk.img as well. So is there a way only to save a ramdisk.img of Firefox without all the TEMP files included???
What about Firefox on the Mac running OS 10.6+ Snow Leopard. I like Firefox but am about ready to switch totally to Safari.
Hello this post is really amazing are you a trained autor ? Maybe i can hire you to post for my company?
Work in/with Firefox Portable?
Thanks a lot man i almost forget about firefox because of that problem it hangs a lot.
thanks again.
Worked well.
using dataram ramdisk with w7 64bit and done so for months, no issue.
Put the profile without any hitch, but noted the
Profile has / and the one for path G: is \ which I guess might be easy to miss for a None computer savy.
@96
A ramdisk’s function isn’t to remove an application’s reliance on RAM, but remove an application’s reliance on HDD. You shouldn’t be looking for improvements in RAM usage, as there’s little chance there will be any improvement.
I couldn’t get Dataram’s RAMDisk working properly, just like kitharass (comment 16). As others are experiencing with Dataram’s RAMDisk, despite being free, it may not be the best RAMDisk product to use if reliability is a requirement. I’ve tried others and received BSODs, even for non-free products, so your mileage may vary…
It doesn’t work!!!!
Firefox started using 950mb ram even if my ramdisk profile was 300mb!!!!
Also, I suspect my Carbonite backup possibly had a conflict with RAMDisk, not sure. I just wonder why E: disappeared and yet RAMDisk was still running.
oops, FF stopped working a week later with a “firefox is already running but not responding… close … or restart” blah blah blah message. All applications were indeed closed! Figured it can’t find the path and sure enough, the RAMdisk “fake” E: drive was gone. modified the read file back to original “profiles and Firefox launched — but with a “Firefox has updated” screen. ah ha! I suspect FF updates throws a wrench in the works. Ideas? Should I try RamDisk again?
I would add to No. 10 Sandeep that if you want your original profile back to exit firefox and then copy your original profile into the folder on your ramdisk. His way is MUCH simpler than than Raymonds. Using FirefoxProfilemanager you do not need to edit profiles.ini and you’re more likely to get it right the first time.
Tried this and works superbly! Lagged typing eliminated and the performance usage box in the task tray isn’t “maxed out” green all day!
Ray,
Thanks for the tip – both for the software as well as for the copying of the Fx profile.
Off the top of your head, can you tell me if this can be automated, so that the RAMdisk is started every time the computer is booted? I currently have 4 GB of RAM, easy enough to allocate 650 MB (to contain 6 profiles) so that I can run Fx with ease….
@everyone having problems – I did this just *once* and it worked correctly – but there are a couple of things to note.
In the profiles.ini file, if there is a ***FULL PATH*** (e.g. “d:\somedir\mozilla\firefox\profiles\”) listed instead of just “Profiles\” then you’ll need to replace the entire “d:\somedir\mozilla\firefox\profiles\” string with the new drive letter, not just “Profiles\” – otherwise Fx will not be able to find your profile and will start out looking like a brand new install, as several people have noted.
Also, if you copy the entire “Profiles\” folder (including all of the profiles inside, such as 4r5ty67u.default) then you’ll need to make the path be “X:\Profiles\” instead of just “X:”, where X is the new drive letter.
Finally, make sure you’ve exited out of Firefox ***before*** you start copying.
Use AFOM or Memory Fox(, which just came out) by IDEVFH.
Well, I know a much easier and better way to reduce Firefox process memory usage.
Insufficient physical memory! RAMDisk requires at least 600MB reserved for the operating system
what can i do ? Ray
Awesome tip, Raymond! At first I only changed what you had highlight in red in the profiles.ini file. When I opened Firefox, all my passwords and bookmarks were gone. I went back and changed the profiles.ini settings exactly to what you had (not just what you typed out to change: “Change Path=Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default to Path=E:\xxxxxxxx.default”) and then I had everything back in Firefox.
Thank you for once again providing such a great tip in your newsletter!
One more thing: it is possible to use the undetected extra memory on Windows XP? Let’s say I have 4GB and XP detects 3,2 (give or take). The extra 800MB could be used to make a ram disk?
Thanks raymond,
But i lost my addons, bookmarks all..
How to regain back all?
Please reply raymond.
Very bad idea, my firefox pretty much reset back to its original state. all bookmarks, addons, etc. gone….
Now i only can restore with Acronis trueimage.
Check things a little better before laying it out !!
Anybody thinking about the possibility with integrate AV and FW on this way?
Hi Ray
Thanks for this article,
but how does it work on
(QSoft RAMDisk Enterprise v5.3.1.5)?
Waiting your help……
guys… anyone got problem playing mafia wars on facebook? i follow the correction mention above but still got problem (the server at mwfb.zynga.com is taking too long to respond) , i tried using IE and it running fine. ????
but why disappear, bookmarks?
1. Before doing this trick..REMEMBER to Always have a backup strategy before make any changes!
For example don’t make the changes inside the only original file. Then it is more safe to just take a copy from it to use as a source to play with and let the real file stay untouched.
2. Also remember to let DataRam always save the image file on a place somewhere on your computer before it shutsdown and also to load the image automatic when turn your pc on, or loading it manually from the source. This because of the reason that every data which is saved (like RamDisk) or other data which is inside memory will be gone and released every time the computer shutsdown and the memory losing the power.
Keep Nirvana rolling!
Raymond states “…make sure that the IsRelative is set at 0 and you get everything back.”
THIS DID NOT WORK on my XP SP2 PC.
However, setting IsRelative=1, DID WORK! This makes PERFECT sense because your instructions require the change from 1 to 0. Therefore, to revert back to the original status, it must be changed from 0 to 1.
Minor correction, I believe.
MS
all my bookmarks and plug ins were gone, so i pointed the profile back to its original folder.
also reclaimed the space set at Ramdisk.
maybe this is good for new installs only.
After reading the Dataram RAMDisk v3.5 manual, I discovered an issue that may effect this applications ability to deliver on what it promises…SPEED!
Specifically, on page 2 of the manual, it states, “Upon successful Start of the RAMDisk, a kernel level driver (RAMDisk.sys) is loaded into the Windows/System32/drivers folder. This driver will be available to Windows each time RAMDisk starts. It is removed when RAMDisk is stopped.”
After following Raymond’s newly revised instructions, when I searched my system for RAMDisk.sys it was not located in the the Windows/System32/drivers folder (as specified by the manual, as noted above).
This file exists in one location, and only one, on my Windows XP SP2 computer. Described as RAM Disk Drive, it exists in the C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache (directory) and is version 5.1.2600.2180 with Size: 20.2 KB (20,736 bytes), and Size on disk: 16.0 KB (16,384 bytes).
Any thoughts regarding this “location” issue, Raymond?
I ask because Dataram offers no support on this product and I cannot find any forum or usergroup regarding this application.
Thanks,
CurlySue
Cool down, all your settings are still there and it’s not end of the world. All you need to do is point it to the right location, make sure that the IsRelative is set at 0 and you get everything back.
I specifically mentioned to COPY, and not CUT and PASTE, which means no matter how badly you screwed it up, your original profile at Application Data folder is untouched.
If still you can’t get it to work, then just revert the profiles.ini changes to point the path to Profiles/
awesome share raymond… super!!! ;)
Great tip, one word of advice though, the bigger your ram disk the longer it takes to save it to the hard disk and thus your shutdown time increases significantly. I have a 512MB ram disk on a laptop with a 7200rpm sata hard disk and it takes about 2 minutes for the computer to shutdown, earlier it took about 15-20 seconds.
Think about it, if it is worth the trade off on your case go for it!
Thanks Ray!
Well… it sure would have been nice to KNOW the SETTING associated with #71, Raymond’s UPDATE before spending the last hour and a half reconstruction my Firefox 3.5.5 bookmarks toolbar, etc.
Then again, had I read the RAMDisk instruction manual, less than 13 pages, perhaps I would have AVOIDED the CATASTROPHIC results!!!
The “IsRelative=0″ is HUGE to AVOIDING the problems that I encountered as “poorly” described under #69.
Thanks for this “specific” CORRECTION, Raymond.
MS
And ANOTHER thing…
GOOD LUCK INTEGRATING DOWNLOAD MANAGERS, LIKE ORBIT, IT CANNOT HAPPEN!!!
ORBIT CANNOT INTEGRATE SINCE IT NO LONGER RECOGNIZES FIREFOX AFTER THIS RAMDisk MODIFICATION.
WHAT A JOKE!!!
I CANNOT BELIEVE I FELL FOR THIS ONE!!!
MS
An update. Make sure that you’ve set IsRelative=0 in your profiles.ini file. If you have that value as 1, then Firefox will start without your bookmarks and etc…
I’ve updated the article. Please check the steps again. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Never trust sensitive information to an experiment. Should always leave the original profile folder in place just in case it doesn’t work. It didn’t work for me either, but I don’t care much since I have practically all the slowness-inducing features turned off. So when it didn’t work, I just went and set it back to its original state, and everything is fine.
I LOST EVERYTHING!!!
ALL OF MY BOOKMARKS ARE GONE, ALL OF MY QUICK LINKS ARE GONE.
WHAT A DISASTER!!!
AND I FOLLOWED EVERY DIRECTION TO THE LETTER TOO.
THIS IS GONNA TAKE ME 2 TO 3 HOURS TO REWORK.
WHAT A JOKE!!!
I can’t open using %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini and %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles command. The “Open With…” box comes out.
I’m using Windows 7. Help!
Raymond,
Nice concept but I cannot get it to work like others in this article. I followed all the steps, and when I started Firefox, I received a message that stated that Firefox was already running, and I needed to shut it down or restart.
I even encountered a incident where Firefox started as a new installation without my Bookmarks. I needed to change the profile ini in Notepad.
I am using XP. Could you please review the steps that you posted so that we can all get it to work like you described.
All your help will be appreciated. Thanks.
i finally got tihs working, but now my computer’s Shutdown time has increased significantly, from like 30 secs before to like at least 2 minutes now. do i need to turn off RAMDisk when i’m done using it and before i shutdown?
@ kitharass
“RamDiskXP start faild:
Unable to start RamDiskXP driver. The Event log may also contain additional information.
Why i m getting this message ?
As i have made
Disk Size 100MB, FAT 32 Partition,
NT/2000/XP boot sector”
me too getting hte same error
ANY SOLUTION PLZZZZZZ…?
hi ray, thanks alot for speeding up my firefox…but got problem everytime i play mafia wars in facebook it slow down.aside from that everything is okey. please help
hi ray,
great work man !!
It greatly benefits dial up users like me.
Thanks
Keep it up.
Hi thanks ray for the articles. much appreciated. i have a problem. after successfully done all the steps, my firefox started as if it’s newly installed. all add-on, bookmarks, etc are all gone. i have quite a fair bit of add-on and it’s rather difficult to reinstall one by one. any advice from you? thanks you very much.
@Kai
@Dan
I have the same problem with bookmarks.
Change the IsRelative=0 and add Default=1 after the Path at profiles.ini
it will look like this——>
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=k:xmvmev8.default
Default=1
Hi,
Thank you very much for this article .
Best regards !
aftre all these procedures i cannot start the Firefox at all. it that the Firefox already lounched and I’ve got finish the process! Reboot does not help.
Raymond, pls help me…
I dont get the last part, can you pls explain the last part in detail?
4. Copy the xxxxxxxx.default folder to the new drive letter created by RAMDisk.
Where is the new drive letter created by RAMDisk??
PLs help!!
Super!Will definitely give it a try.
thanks once again Ray. Just waiting for X-Ray :)
hey i get invalid picture while trying to start my ramdisk.Is there any solution for this case??btw im using window 7 x32
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didn’t work for me
after changing the profile path in profile.ini as you mention above and start my firefox, firefox automatically create new profile files in %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles rather than using profile folder in ramdrive
For those that having their bookmarks, addons and etc reset, it means that you either did not copy your firefox profile to the ramdisk or you’ve set the wrong path in profiles.ini
=>
If the ‘IsRelative’ item in profiles.ini file is set to the 1, then change it to 0.
In my case, this is working!
Someone try to explain this one!
I followed all the steps and was able to start Firefox profile from my newly created J drive after pointing the ini file to J:\2kg4r2j1.default.
I lost my bookmarks, addons and passwords. I was able to restore the passwords with the addon: Password Exporter. I was able to restore the bookmarks by importing bookmarks.html
I noticed a quicker load time.
I changed my ini file back and forth between Profiles/2kg4r2j1.default and J:\2kg4r2j1.default. They both loaded and were slightly different from each other because of the loss of addons in the new profile.
All of a sudden I noticed my profile missing from the new J drive and Firefox was still loading. I thought this was weird.
I decided to delete Dataram RAMDisk and I also deleted the 300MB img file. The J drive disappeared and I pointed my ini file back to Profiles/2kg4r2j1.default.
Just for the fun of it I pointed my ini file back to J:\2kg4r2j1.default and to my surprise it loaded. How in the world can this profile load when I deleted the Dataram RAMDisk program and the img file. There is no visible J Drive.
Can this profile be stored in memory somewhere?
Thanks Raymond I appreciate the quick reply and love the blog.
Ok, I’ve had this running all day so far and I noticed that my ram disk space is getting smaller and smaller as the day goes on. I set it up as a 300mb ram disk and my profile was 17mb in size. It has now grown to over 140mb in size. Is this normal? Do I have to increase the ram disk size eventually? I’m just doing normal stuff, surfing the web, nothing special. Running Win 7 Pro 64 bit.
Sorry, it’s WIN + R. Made a mistake there…
@Nicolas: That is why I’ve advice to set it auto save every 5 minutes.
@dcrowe0050: When you’ve set the ramdisk to FAT32 and started it, the option will be blurred out and you will notice that it goes to Unformatted. Nothing to worry there because the ramdisk is still fat32.
For those that having their bookmarks, addons and etc reset, it means that you either did not copy your firefox profile to the ramdisk or you’ve set the wrong path in profiles.ini
47% use Firefox but how about Internet Explorer?
Looking forward to read more in how to make the trick with other replacements like IE and why not virtual machines like VirtualBox in the RAM.
Much interesting!
does this work for flock browser too? thnks!
dino, the search box can also be used for run commands.
@Ray: good article.
Is is possible to make multiple drives of ram?
I didn’t try to implement the suggested solution in this article.
However I am just a bit puzzle about moving Firefox SQLite database into RamDisk.
What happens to Firefox and its database if suddently the Ramdisk software freeze or let’s say the computer power off unexpectedly ? Won’t you get any corruption ?
Has anyone tried extreme crash solution to see if Firefox properly survive a crash test ?
Thanks for you remarks
I’m very glad that your blog is active again.
By installing only add-ons I really need and applying a few more tweaks, I manage to keep my Firefox Profiles size below 20MB.
However, I’d like to try this trick in order to get a hands-on feel of RAMDisk technology (novel to me), see how much faster can Firefox go and provide it room for future enhancement.
Thank you very much for the gift of learning, Raymond.
Hey Ray set up the ram disk and everything exactly as you described, tried it twice actually, and when I reboot the ramdisk starts up as unformatted. So I noticed that as soon as I do step 9 and go back to the main page everything is greyed out and it moved my selection from FAT32 to unformatted. Any help?
Hi Raymond,
AppData seems to be protected in Windows 7 and doesn’t allow any access even in safemode, but after struggling quite some time with the Profiles and Profile.ini, I finally got it to work using FreeCommander.
The content inside my Profile.ini are differs from yours, Is Relative=1 and doesn’t have Default=1 at the bottom, but I after changed Relative from 1 to 0 and add Default=1 to the entry, and finally it seems to be working without any problem. I even open and close Firefox to see whether the profile in Ramdisk changes, and it does.
But after some time the profile from 30mb went up to 68mb, the most noticed file size is urlclassifier3.sqlite which took 30mb. I try to open Firefox after deleted urclassifier3.sqlite and nothing changes at all, or I missed it? After that I restored it back, still the same. Everything is working and seems to be fine but the only problem is the urlclassifier3.sqlite file size went sky high after some time.
same problem as with what kai has.
My firefox pretty much reset back to its original state. all bookmarks, addons, etc. gone….
Insufficient physical memory! RAMDisk requires at least 600MB reserved for the operating system
what can i do ? Ray
You know what Ray….You are really a Genius guy! How did know that? I followed all every single detail of your instructions because of course I wanna speed up my browsing in the net. It works really great and unbelievably in a blink of an eye….the site I’m searching on was already there.
Thanks Ray! Your right….SUPERSPEED…..
hi thanks a lot i love firefox and i really wants it to be more faster. So i have win xp too and i put a ramdisk of 800mb and i does no habe any problem i think it is a independent thing
Hmmm, same problem as Kai for me. After completing these tasks, I’m for whatever reason, unable to load my bookmarks and add-ons. Can anybody think of any possible reasons? Thanks a lot.
Great guide, but for step 2. I think you mean Win+R and not CTRL
Hi Raymond,
I have the portable version of Firefox, may I use this method too ?
Thanks,
József
kai..i’m facing the same ploblem v u..
also my cookies..all gone..
I had used Dataram RAMDisk about 2 days. I think it’s not very stable.
MR7, thanks for the tip, that worked on mine as well. Ray, so far, so good. Thanks for the ramdisk/Firefox tip!
thanks ray u r d best…hope u r having wonderful after marriage life…Bon Chance
tnx raymund,.,i already tried this,.,can i ask a question?
Firefox cache !!!
Open Firefox and type: about:config, click the warning box. Right click and select New –> String Copy & Paste the following in first the dialog box:
browser.cache.disk.parent_directory
pick the ramdisk as folder
erm…a question here…
My bookmark and remembered password gone after the setting… anything i can do to recover it??thx for help..
It didn’t work.. =(
What if i uninstall firefox and install it again in RAMDisk??
One more thing: it is possible to use the undetected extra memory on Windows XP? Let’s say I have 4GB and XP detects 3,2 (give or take). The extra 800MB could be used to make a ram disk?
@Hansel: Try adding another backslash at the end after Profiles so that it becomes %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
@hellnoire: Search for Make RAM Disk. It’s a utility to quickly and easily create a RAM disk on Mac OS X.
Looks nice Raymond. You see, this is why I’m one of your forum members lol, you’ve always got tips like this.
My only question, however, is an odd one. I know now thanks to you, Windows can do this. And Linux has optimized builds that reduce the needs for this, though can do it too. It leaves only one OS by itself.
Not that I’ll ever be a Mac user, but I’m just wondering if you think this would be possible with Apple.
I’ve installed and created a 300MB RAMDisk but i can’t seem to open %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles on Run Command. It give me option to “Open with” I am using Windows 7. Can anyone help please…
Love it! Thanks Ray!
That is odd. My profile.ini had IsRelative=1 and I couldn’t make it work until I change it to 0 (zero). For those who may have the same problem, try it. And great tip Ray, despite that my profile has only 16MB… =D
Tried a few times but didn’t like it and not used to it.
FYI, Safari takes the third position with 9% and Opera at fourth with 5.4%.
I believe there are not many Windows user using Safari. So that means we have more MAC users than Opera users?
Hi there, I’m going to do this now, will I get a noticeable speed increase?
Thanks
Why dont u use Opera and u wont have a problem like this :D
RamDiskXP start faild:
Unable to start RamDiskXP driver. The Event log may also contain additional information.
Why i m getting this message ?
As i have made
Disk Size 100MB, FAT 32 Partition,
NT/2000/XP boot sector
can anyone tell me plz at
kitharass@hotmail.com
Being a FireFox fan, many thanks for the info. Great to see you back on the daily updates.
thanks ray nice info.it works fine!
Guys, if firefox starts slow or runs try something else like opera for example…it may not have that much addons, but it has built-in features that makes most of the addons redundant…or else, check how many of firefox’s addons ‘emulate’ opera’s functions..
i personally, mainly use opera, but i have firefox mainly for his videodownloader plugin which opera hasn’t..
@Kashim: Your question has already been answered in the article.
wonderfull Raymond…
you are the MAN
I actually attempted to do this when you wrote your ramdisl benchmark post.
I had installed firefox3.7a1 into the ramdisk and also if you open up a command line to that firefox folder amd enter:
firefox -profilemanager
you can create a new profile with the location of your choice. Create the location in a folder in the ramdisk. And presto! You have both firefox and it’s profile all in the ram.
Works great!
Thanks for the tips raymond.
Thanks for the info…
But aren’t all the settings, cache and history reset after reboot?
thanks mate, useful tip!
hi,
after the dataram disk install complete, i tried to run , got a error , Invalid Picture.
can u help on this.
You are always excellent, ray, Thanks for such a good tip, I miss your absence, I daily visit your blog for post….
thanks mate… for this wonderful tips……. welcome back….
Press Win + R. It works the same on XP, Vista and even 7.
lol..i found the solution…juz type “run” on the search box then u r ready to go…
=)
how to do the step 2 for vista user?
i cant find run command on vista because it has the search box…