Speeding up Program Startups

[effdee]

Back 12 years ago when I had a WIN98 computer I used to have a utility that
speeded up the starting up of programs.

I think it was called Memmaker, and I think it was Quemm program, does
anyone remember what I'm referring to?

The Q is, is there such a thing for XP ?

effdee

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Back 12 years ago when I had a WIN98 computer I used to have a utility
that speeded up the starting up of programs.

I think it was called Memmaker, and I think it was Quemm program, does
anyone remember what I'm referring to?

The Q is, is there such a thing for XP ?

Prefetch in XP speeds up applications startup, by default.

ss.

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

Back 12 years ago when I had a WIN98 computer I used to have a utility
that speeded up the starting up of programs.

2008 - 12 = 1996

There was no Win98, you're talking about Win95 or Win3.1.

I think it was called Memmaker, and I think it was Quemm program, does
anyone remember what I'm referring to?
http://dictionary.die.net/qemm386

The Q is, is there such a thing for XP ?

Nope. Note that QEMM386 did *not* speed up any program startups.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I remember memmaker. I don't think it was for speeding up anything but to
allow some resource hungry games to run.

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

I remember memmaker. I don't think it was for speeding up anything
but to allow some resource hungry games to run.

Yep, QEMM386 was just a memory manager replacing EMM386.EXE and HIMEM.SYS.
MemMaker was a utility helping to optimize loading DOS TSRs into the upper
memory in order to increase the free conventional memory. IIRC, the later
versions of QEMM386 had a tool allowing for a quick reboot. That's all.

 

[M.I.5¾]

Back 12 years ago when I had a WIN98 computer I used to have a utility
that speeded up the starting up of programs.

I think it was called Memmaker, and I think it was Quemm program, does
anyone remember what I'm referring to?

The Q is, is there such a thing for XP ?

You memory is playing tricks.

Qemm386 was a third party memory manager for expanded and extended memory.

Memmaker was a utility provided with DOS 6 that automatically configured the
memory options to provide the best use of conventional (the memory that you
were supposed to have) and upper memory (the memory that shouldn't have been
available but, because of a bug in the Intel processors, was).

Memmaker didn't speed anything up, but merely allowed many programs that
required more conventional memory than otherwise would have been available,
to run.

 

[effdee]

You memory is playing tricks.

Qemm386 was a third party memory manager for expanded and extended memory.

Memmaker was a utility provided with DOS 6 that automatically configured
the memory options to provide the best use of conventional (the memory
that you were supposed to have) and upper memory (the memory that
shouldn't have been available but, because of a bug in the Intel
processors, was).

Memmaker didn't speed anything up, but merely allowed many programs that
required more conventional memory than otherwise would have been
available, to run.

Yes my memory is getting rusty!
But there was a utility which I used back then, which you ran and it looked
at the start-up of a program, and then it created a new shortcut it, which
started the program faster from then on.
And it actually did work.

I only wish I could remember what it's name was!

effdee

 

[Bob I]

Yes my memory is getting rusty!
But there was a utility which I used back then, which you ran and it looked
at the start-up of a program, and then it created a new shortcut it, which
started the program faster from then on.
And it actually did work.

I only wish I could remember what it's name was!

effdee

Don't remember the name, but that's precisly what XP prefetch does, but
goes one further, and reorders files on the drive to load faster yet.