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Description: | CachemanXP is a Windows tuneup utility designed to improve the speed and stability of your computer
by optimizing caches, recovering RAM and fine tuning a number of system settings.
Oneclick-Optimization makes it suitable for novice and intermediate users yet it is also powerful
and versatile enough for computer experts. Backups of settings ensure that all user modifications
can be reversed with a single click. CachemanXP requires Windows 2000/2003 or XP/XP64 to run, uses
minimal resources and virtually no CPU time. The help file includes a screenshot based system
performance guide.
Unlike other tuneup utilities, CachemanXP runs as a system service, minimizing resource usage and
tweaking Windows at system-level.
Read CachemanXP review at TechNewsWorld.
CachemanXP has NO trial period and will always work on your system, whether you decide to purchase
or not.
Purchasing CachemanXP enables an additional feature - Auto-Optimize.
CachemanXP is localized with these languages:
English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Danish, Russian, Portuguese,
Norwegian, Slovak
CachemanXP will backup your system settings so you can always revert any changes . The
Auto-Optimize feature will examine your system and tweak it for best performance. With one click of
a button From version 1.60 on Auto-Optimize tweaks also the DNS Cache for improved Network and
Internet performance.
In order to get a CachemanXP license you must register and obtain a serial number registration fee
starts with 25 for single computer .
You can also sign-up with one of our affiliate partners and they will pay the registration fee on
your behalf. See the Trialpay page for details.
Special offer for Cacheman 5.x users
We offer a cross-upgrade option for registered Cacheman users. If you have purchased Cacheman the
classic non XP version and want to cross upgrade to CachemanXP 13 instead of 25 for single
computer license please contact update@outertech.com. For any other CachemanXP related support
write to cachemanxp@outertech.com.
System Tweaks
CachemanXP allows you to tweak a number of system settings.
Here is an example of a system tweak:
Most Windows users know and dread this Automatic Updates dialog.
In the middle of your work or entertainment session Windows can display this dialog. Since you want
to go on with your work, you click on Restart later.
But Windows will not leave you alone. The dialog will reappear every 5 minutes, no matter what. It
gets even worse, it will stay on top of all other programs, in some cases even in front of a movie
you are watching.
If you use CachemanXP to tweak your system, you can prevent this dialog from showing up and restart
your system when you are done with your work.
The tweak lets you only decide when to restart your system, the updates will still be installed
With two clicks in CachemanXP you can get rid of this dialog for ever.
Go to the Tweaks tab.
And turn on these two check boxes.
Process List functions
CachemanXP displays a list of loaded Windows processes Applications and System Services along with
detailed information including RAM usage.
If a process consumes more than 10 CPU Time the process name is displayed in blue color, if a
process consumes more than 30 of CPU Time the process name is displayed in red.
You can sort the process list by clicking on any of the column headers. You can also change the
display order by drag and dropping column headers.
If you doubleclick on a process with a window. CachemanXP will bring the window to front.
The most important CachemanXP process feature is Kill Process.
What is this function for?
From time to time a Windows program can crash and become non responding. It completely stops to
react to user input. In bad cases it can slow down your whole system and even stop other programs
from working.
When this happens, you usually show the Task Manager and try to end it.
Unfortunately, it does not always work. A program can crash very badly and ignore even the Task
Manager. You select End Process over and over, but nothing happens.
In this case the CachemanXP Kill Process function should help you.
It will remove the selected program from memory even if it does not play along nicely and refuses to
respond. Since this feature should only be used as a last resort, you will be asked whether you
really want to kill the process.
Show window: brings the main window of the selected process to front
Open folder: opens the folder of the process executable with Explorer
Lower RAM usage: temporarily moves the selected process from RAM to Paging File
End Process: closes the main window of the selected application normal exit
Kill Process: eliminates the selected process from memory, use only on crashed applications or
processes without a window
Set Priority: sets the level of CPU Priority of the selected process, processes with higher Priority
will get more CPU time and run faster, but slow down reaction time of other processes
What about Windows Vista?
Cacheman for Vista is the end of the Beta Test Beta 3 . It has been delayed by the release of Vista
Service Pack 1 several core modifications were required . Please stop bombarding support about it -
it s coming
RAM-Recovery
How does it work?
RAM-Recovery functionality is already included in Windows. You may ask yourself why there are so
many programs that offer this feature. There is no magic behind this function. Inactive or crashed
programs are simply moved from your physical memory RAM to a space on your Hard Drive called the
Paging File =Swap File .
If Windows does recover RAM already, why bother?
As an example imagine a computer with 1024 MBytes of RAM. After booting up you have 700 MBytes free
RAM left. You launch several larger applications, work with them and free RAM goes constantly down.
After hours there is only 50 MBytes of free memory left. Then you start loading a data file that
needs 80 MBytes of RAM. Now the Windows RAM recovery feature becomes active, programs that have not
been used for a longer time are moved out to the Paging File in order to make room for 80 MBytes of
data. This process consumes both CPU time and causes disk activity - it creates a slow down.
Preferably you would like to work with the data immediately, not wait until Windows makes room for
it. Instead your cursor becomes a hourglass and you have to wait.
What does CachemanXP differently?
CachemanXP will not wait with the recovery until your system runs completely out of RAM. You can
configure at which state below value CachemanXP should perform the recovery process. The postpone
recovery on high system activity option ensures that no recovery happens if you are working on an
important task and do not want to be disturbed. CachemanXP will wait until the job is done and
perform the recovery thereafter. Since the recovery happens earlier as usual your system will have
enough RAM available a much longer time.
How does this CachemanXP feature differ from RAM-Recovery in other programs?
Almost all RAM-Recovery programs do more harm than good.
It makes no sense to recover memory from programs if there is still free RAM available. You computer
memory SHOULD be used to the maximum extend.
Other Ram-Utilities recover very frequently constant disk activity . Too much data gets moved to
the Paging File so when the user switches programs there are major slow downs and often the
recovery is executed at a time when the user does something important and CPU consuming, slowing
down all system operations.
CachemanXP ensures that..
no recovery happens if the system has still a lot of free RAM left below setting
long pauses between recovery operations pause setting
the recovery will be postponed if CPU intensive applications like video editing software or a
fullscreen game are working
active programs are not moved to the Paging File
Tray Icons
The Tray Icons belong to the CachemanXP system service CachemanXP.exe . The service uses minimal
resources usually around 1 MByte and virtually no CPU time.
The main purposes of this system service are to control the File Cache, recover RAM and display
system information configurable in the Options tab . Since it is a system service it works also if
no user is logged in.
If you double click one of the Icons, the service will launch the CachemanXP settings window which
is an independent application that communicates with the service .
The next screenshot shows the CachemanXP Tray Icon menu.
This is a CachemanXP Tray Icon displaying the CPU Usage as a history graph ...
... and free RAM as a numeric value.
From version 1.50 on, CachemanXP displays two Tray Icons. The next screenshot shows CPU Usages of
the two Cores of a Dual Core CPU as numeric values.
How to update from older versions?
If you have purchased CachemanXP 1.0-1.71, you can upgrade to 1.80 free of charge. Just override
your older CachemanXP installation. All settings, including the serial number, will remain.
New in version 1.80
Support for Intel Core i7 processors.
Vastly improved Auto-Optimize on 64bit editions of Windows 2003 and XP.
New hotkeys.
Fixed a problem with Power Management of Acer Notebooks.
Updated Performance Guide in the Help File.
New in version 1.71
Several new Tweaks.
Added official WindowsXP x64 support.
Improved Auto-Optimize values.
New in version 1.70
Improved Network and Internet Cache Optimization.
Support for Intel Atom and AMD Phenom X3 processors.
Process management Internet lookup function.
Additional Translations.
Bug fixes.
New in version 1.60
Support for Intel Quad-Core and AMD Phenom CPUs.
WindowsXP Service Pack 3 compatibility.
Improved Network and Internet performance thru DNS Cache tweaking Auto-Optimize .
Additional Cache settings.
Several new Process Management functions.
Minor bug fixes.
New in version 1.51
Several new Tweaks and Cache settings.
File Cache optimized for low-memory situation with several games including World of Warcraft and
Lord of the Rings Online.
Option to turn off second tray icon.
Works now also with disabled Performance Counters Fallback Mode .
Bug fixes.
New in version 1.50
Improved Dual Core processor support Intel and AMD .
Several new Cache settings and Tweaks.
Extended Process information.
Sortable Process list.
Allows to change CPU Priority of all programs, including system processes.
Ability to hide Automatic Updates restart dialog.
Two, fully configurable Tray Icons.
Auto-Optimize finetuned for latest computer systems.
GUI redesigned to optionally take less screen space.
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CachemanXP is a Windows utility designed to improve speed and stability of your computer by
optimizing several caches, auto-recovering RAM and fine tuning system settings.
Oneclick-Optimization makes it suitable for novice and intermediate users yet it is also powerful
and versatile enough for computer experts. Backups of settings ensure that all user modifications
can be reversed. The help file includes a screenshot
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