Hey everyone! Merry Christmas!
So, I don't get something: (I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS CAREFULLY)
I disabled the ramdrive like 10 minutes ago. Uninstalled it. Drive Z is gone. I cannot access it anymore. I didn't need to reboot, it just unloaded the driver. And nothing happened.
I even moved the 2 sys files away from \systemroot\system32\drivers\ - and deleted them from the 'dllcache' folder so that WFP would not be able to reinsert them if the system searched for them on that path... still, nothing happens. I have like 7 IE windows open one of them is a download window, I'm also downloading something from an FTP I'm connected to 2 IRC networks and to ICQ... and everything works fine.
Why?
I mean if it really mattered where we stored the 2 files... if the system really needs to access them from time to time and not just loads them up into memory or caches them, if they indeed speed up broswing and other activities, shouldn't I get an error message or something? A BSOD?
Have I proven that this does not do anything? Or am I just lucky that my 466Mhz Celeron with its 256 megs of RAM and 10-12 running programs (browser windows are separate processes) doesn't swap often?
Help me here guys. I'm on Windows XP.