eBoostr 3.0 Build 457 Beta

3.7 out of 5 stars 3.7 (41 votes)

BETA (October 31, 2008)

Windows 2000/2003/2008/Vista/XP / Shareware; $39.00 / 5,685 downloads

eBoostr allows you to use an additional drive (flash memory or hard disk) as another layer of performance-boosting cache for your Windows XP. Get the benefits of the ReadyBoost technology on your XP system. With the newly developed eBoostr, the booting of your OS and applications startup get much faster thanks to the smart caching mechanism.

  • Publisher

    FirmTools

  • Homepage

    eBoostr

  • Limitations

    Yes - 30 day timeout

  • Uninstaller

    Yes

  • Latest Changes

    - Windows Vista support

    - Applications priority list (now you select which application you'd like to boost more)

    - Extended cache contents and statistics viewer

    - Antivirus scans or indexing programs automatic detection and ignoring in the stats

    - Greatly increased RAM cache speed and flash devices load balancing

    - U3 system enabled flash devices now detected correctly

Reviews of eBoostr

  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    Nefarious

    Reviewing 3.0 Build 457 Beta (May 13, 2009)

    @roj:
    OK, I can waste $40 on this or spend the $40 on REAL RAM.
    And I should buy this why?
    THREE stars for a gimmick of dubious value.

    Uh it isnt meant to work as substitute ram, it is meant to speed up things that are usually loaded from disk by reducing some of those drastically and in fact it will work better if you get more ram for it. For example my photoshop takes 23 seconds loading after a reboot, with eboostr it's reduced to 4-6 secs instead helping me doing what i want faster. If you have ram to waste use it on a bigger memory cache for eboostr it is really worth it.

    I love the way eboostr 3 lets me give priority to apps and specify how much ram or space in flash drives to use unlike the windows Vista solution.

  2. 1 out of 5 stars
    prf

    Reviewing 3.0 Build 457 Beta (Nov 23, 2008)

    I have the perfect scenario for eBoostr: using Windows XP on a Thinkpad X41 that is maxed out with memory. Initial testing was impressive, with a noticeable speed improvement in start-up, loading most apps, and task switching. However, over time, the system slowed to a crawl. I tried everything -- switching USB drives, disabling write cacheing, rebuilding the swap file. Nothing worked until I uninstalled and reinstalled the program. The same thing happened three times, each over the course of about 3 to 5 days. I contacted eBoostr tech support twice and have received no response at all. I hope they appreciate my money more than I like their software.

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    SAV2880

    Reviewing 3.0 Build 457 Beta (Oct 31, 2008)

    Anyone expecting this program to give them an unrealistic boost in system performance is nuts. It's just not designed to do it. It's designed to give you a way to utilize more of your system resources towards speedier programs, and less equipment wear, and I think it does a good job.

    I've been using this on my Aspire One. It helps performance by a small amount, maybe 10% (need a faster SD card), but it also does keep the machine a little cooler and the battery life a little higher. Nothing major, but with a machine that has two SD card slots, using one for this makes a lot of sense.

    I am anxious to deck out my home desktop with 8GB of RAM and dedicate some to this program as well. Most of the time, I won't use all the RAM, so having it available to play around with for something like this might work pretty well.

  4. 3 out of 5 stars
    roj

    Reviewing 3.0 Build 457 Beta (Oct 31, 2008)

    OK, I can waste $40 on this or spend the $40 on REAL RAM.

    And I should buy this why?

    THREE stars for a gimmick of dubious value.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    marrix

    Reviewing 2.0 Build 410 Beta (Mar 13, 2008)

    Been using this on my XP notebook for about 6 months. Great app, according to Speedfan, my core temp's are 21 degrees Celsius, HD temp 28C. These figures speak for themselves. This machine
    runs very cool, even when viewing AVI's, obviously it's going to reduce wear & tear on the HD.
    Machine had Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 & GFX are on board Intel GMA X3100, nothing special.

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