How to speed up your computer

Have you been wondering how to speed up your computer? Cacheman (short for Cache-manager), the award-winning Windows 7, XP, Vista, and Windows 8 optimizer offers you a multitude of ways to speed up your computer. Cacheman has been developed with novice, intermediate, and expert users in mind. Immediately after installation, Cacheman examines your computer and automatically tweaks a vast number of cache settings, Registry values, system service options, and PC memory parameters.

But this is only the start. Cacheman then continues to work quietly in the background, in order to speed up your computer even more by managing computer memory (RAM), program processes and system services. Cacheman makes sure that the active application gets the maximum possible processing power and available system memory. Cacheman also includes a special optimization for computer games, to prevent slow downs, lag, and stuttering caused by system tools like anti-virus programs.

Cacheman can fix slow downs, lag, and stuttering not only in desktop applications, but also in computer games including Battlefield 3, Call of Duty (CoD), Dishonored, Crysis 3, Skyrim, Witcher 2, Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft (WoW), and Star Wars – The old Republic (SWTOR). Cacheman will give more CPU power and make more memory (RAM) available to the game. Slow downs, lag, and stuttering in computer games is often caused by background process and disk activity. For example, a background Virus-Scan performed by an Anti-Virus program can significantly slow down the computer. Windows system services are also often the cause for lag and stuttering in computer games.

Cacheman will dynamically regulate the priority of background processes (Anti-Virus programs, system services, Windows-Update installations) if they take too much CPU processing power. The front running application (in this case the computer game) will get a significant boost. Cacheman will also ensure that applications leaking (wasting) computer memory will not take away resources from the game. The dynamic priority feature is already pre-configured and works from the start.

The initial internet incarnation of Cacheman was introduced in early 1997 as the first Windows optimization application ever released. 15 years and millions of downloads later, Cacheman's 2013 edition is available as Version 7.70, fully supporting Windows XP/Vista and especially designed to speed up a Windows 7 and a Windows 8 computer. In its rich history Cacheman has been praised by almost every computer magazine world-wide.

Even Microsoft recommended Cacheman 5.11: "Cacheman enables you to tweak the cache settings for your hard drive, CD-ROM drive, desktop icons and file and folder names in much more detail. You can pick a typical profile, use the wizard or just experiment." Read the History of Cacheman for more details, but don't forget to download first!

Basic profile: designed to get a basic "feeling" how Cacheman optimization works.

Best of all worlds: the best choice for the majority of Desktop computers. Over 15 years of Windows optimization experience went into this profile. Thousands of computers and user reports have been analyzed to create a profile without any side effects that will provide a major speed up for every PC.

Maximum Performance: this profile takes the best of all worlds profile as a base and adds some experimental tweaks that can provide additional computer speed up. There is no long-term experience on some of these tweaks, so the profile is the first choice for users who like to experiment.

Maximum Stability: intended for computers that use old computer programs with stability issues. The grace period, fault tolerance and waitstates to handle badly written software will be increased. Do not use on stable computers. This profile consists of less aggresive tweaking, but still provides a major speed up for your computer.

Notebook | Netbook: best for laptop devices including Notebook and Netbooks. This is similar to best of all worlds profile, with one major difference. This profile takes battery life and thermal issues into account.

Digital Audio Workstation: A digital audio workstation (DAW) is a computer designed for recording and editing of digital audio. If you select this profile Cacheman will optimize Windows paramaters to minimize system latency and improve audio editing performance.

Gaming PC: intended for computers that run full screen applications like computer games. This profile tweaks the PC, so that background tasks and system services do not interrupt foreground applications, particularly computer games. Game lag, slow downs, and stuttering is often caused by background tasks like computer virus scans. Cacheman will make sure that the game is not being slowed down.

Super User: designed for users who want full control of the computer. Warning messages from user account control (UAC) will be deactivated. Windows is tweaked for less tolerance for badly written software, so it cannot block other running applications.

Network Server: profile for systems that run 24/7, for example a network / LAN file server or an internet web server (running Apache or Microsofts Webserver IIS). Windows will be tweaked for background processes and long run-time caching.

Windows 7 Tablet: This profile improves user interface responsiveness and system reaction speed up on several Windows 7 tablet computers including Asus Eee EP121, Samsung Sliding 7, Viliv X70 and the Lenovo U1 Hybrid.

Windows 8 Tablet: This profile improves user interface responsiveness on several Windows 8 x86/x64 tablet computers including (but not limited to) Acer Iconia W510, Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2, Dell Latitude 10, and Microsoft Surface Pro.

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Cacheman is easy enough for novices to use, yet powerful enough for advanced users. Never wonder again how to speed up your computer. Try Auto-Optimization and let Cacheman take the wheel, performing the most often needed tweaks to get your computer back up to speed.

Besides auto-optimization for a faster computer, you can alternatively manually take control by defining specific apps that should receive priority when the system allocates memory (RAM), or impose a limit on the amount of memory that a specific app is allowed to use!