Howto empty windows disk/ram cache?

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Howard Schwartz

I often find, after I change something during a windows (98) session, I
wish there was some way to have the change take effect, without restarting
windows.

Specifically, something gets stuck in window's disk cache, 386win.swp
or memory cache - (e.g., a keyboard shortcut) and windows keeps reading
it there, instead of on the disk where I have made a change.

Is there a utility or procedure to flush windows swap file or memory
cache, to prevent this annoyance? It also be nice to tell windows
to reread and/or update the infamous registry.

Remember dos and smartdrive (do not faint!). IT has a switch to
flush its cache.
 
H

Helium

Howard said:
Is there a utility or procedure to flush windows swap file or memory
cache, to prevent this annoyance? It also be nice to tell windows
to reread and/or update the infamous registry.
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Cacheman (http:\\www.outertech.com) is a utility that will
flush your cache files on the fly. It is donationware but if
decide not to send them the suggested donation it will still
work except that you'll get a registration screen on startup.
(so it is not real freeware.) HTH, He2
p.s. program will not, to my knowledge, flush swap file.
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Helium

Helium wrote:
Sorry, made a mistake with the slashes:
url should be http://www.outertech.com
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A

Al Klein

Cacheman (http:\\www.outertech.com) is a utility that will
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1) "Due to the system service nature it requires Windows NT4/2000/2003
or XP to run"

2) What the OP is requesting is that Windows operate like a disk cache
- it doesn't. "Rereading" the registry requires a reboot, since
Windows can't flush the registry while it's running without crashing.
 

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