Owing to cheaper memory it is becoming increasingly common that modern PC’s have >4GB physical memory. However because of the limitations of 32-bit IBM PC architecture, to access full 4GB RAM or more, the CPU processor must support Physical Address Extension (PAE), as well as the North-bridge Chip must have the Memory Remapping feature. Even the hardware has enabled these features, the operating system may still constrain the full use of the large memory.

It is possible however to access this additional memory installed using something called a “RamDisk”. Normally when your physical memory is exceeded Windows will use a “pagefile” (located on a hard drive… access times on hard drives is much slower than RAM) to act as additional memory. It is possible however to use your additional memory as a pagefile, using some special tools.

Windows XP/ Vista: VSuite from Romex
Windows 9x/ Me: Link

These two above applications contain some special code that isn’t normaly available in other “RamDisk” software.

You can also use the tools to setup things like your TEMP folder, browser cache etc to be located in your memory for even faster access!

64-Bit Windows doesn’t have such a 4GB physical memory limitation…..

NOTE: complicated, and yes there are proxy sites to get around rapidshare, however there are none currently that’ll get around rapidshare.com:

Okay, here is a quick tutorial on how to get around those annoying “Wait X minutes before downloading” messages, as well as the one-file-at-a-time limits that are frequent on Rapidshare and similar sites. This tutorial uses Opera (because it has the best download manager), but can probably be adapted for any browser

Step 1. Since this will slow down each download quite a bit, pick 4 or 5 Rapidshares that you’ve always wanted. This will give you the most speed boost.

Step 2. Start the biggest one as you normally would, by clicking the “Free” button.

Step 3. Go to

http://www.samair.ru/proxy/

and pick a proxy. configure your browser to use it. (In Opera, Tools/Preferences, Advanced tab, Network on the right, then click the Proxy Servers button.

Before the colon is the IP, after is the port.

Step 4: Finally, test it for speed. If the proxy seems pretty fast, start the next download, and repeat Step 3&4 until you have all your files downloading. If it seems too slow, repeat step 3 until you find a fast one.

That’s all! Most of you will already know about this, but it’s cool anyways.