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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1191710" data-attributes="member: 109222">Hi.As the author of the original howto I don't use it this way any longer as in meantime there is a much easier way to use IMDisk... I'm now using the IMDisk Toolkit downloaded from here:<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/</a>It's very easy to set up and don't need any batch scripting at all. If you also want to have the Windows &quot;Temp&quot; folders on your RAM Disk you best create somewhere an empty directory and name it something like &quot;Ram Disk&quot; (name did not matter at all). In this new and empty folder you can create two folders named &quot;Temp&quot; and &quot;Timeshift&quot;. Then start the &quot;Ram Disk Configurator&quot; from the IMDisk Toolkit. I only can provide screenshots in German but you may find the matching entries even if you don't read German at all, I'm sure...[ATTACH=full]180977[/ATTACH] First entry is the maximum size of your RAM disk. In the line below the check at &quot;Allocate RAM dynamical&quot; (or similar, in German it's &quot;Speicher dynamisch belegen&quot;) is important. This way the RAM disk is at a very low size until the space really is needed... Then you set the drive letter and the file system (should be NTFS for sure). The line below is for creating the RAM Disk on windows startup (in German &quot;Bei Windowsstart mitstarten&quot;). And the last two lines are for TEMP handling. The mark is for creating the TEMP folder in the RAM Disk and the button is to change Windows environment variables to use the RAM Disk as Temp instead of C:\Windows\Temp and the other path used for this.Then go to the tab &quot;Data&quot; (&quot;Daten&quot; in German). [ATTACH=full]180978[/ATTACH] Here you have to select the previous created folder &quot;RamDisk&quot; containing the &quot;Timeshift&quot; folder. This way the &quot;Timeshift&quot; folder will be generated on every Windows Start and can be used for Timeshifting in MP.If you have a look at &quot;Advanced&quot; Tab (&quot;Fortgeschritten&quot; in German). Here you can set a volume name (&quot;Laufwerksname&quot;) for your RAM Disk.[ATTACH=full]180979[/ATTACH]&nbsp; All other options you better not touch unless you really know what you are doing...Setting all TEMP folders to the RAM Disk has the advantage that TEMP is cleared on every restart. Normally TEMP folders are growing and growing until all available space on C: is occupied as most programs don't remove their garbage there. Aside this it lowers the write accesses on your SSD what may increase the lifetime of your SSD...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1191710, member: 109222"] Hi. As the author of the original howto I don't use it this way any longer as in meantime there is a much easier way to use IMDisk... I'm now using the IMDisk Toolkit downloaded from here: [URL]https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/[/URL] It's very easy to set up and don't need any batch scripting at all. If you also want to have the Windows "Temp" folders on your RAM Disk you best create somewhere an empty directory and name it something like "Ram Disk" (name did not matter at all). In this new and empty folder you can create two folders named "Temp" and "Timeshift". Then start the "Ram Disk Configurator" from the IMDisk Toolkit. I only can provide screenshots in German but you may find the matching entries even if you don't read German at all, I'm sure... [ATTACH=full]180977[/ATTACH] First entry is the maximum size of your RAM disk. In the line below the check at "Allocate RAM dynamical" (or similar, in German it's "Speicher dynamisch belegen") is important. This way the RAM disk is at a very low size until the space really is needed... Then you set the drive letter and the file system (should be NTFS for sure). The line below is for creating the RAM Disk on windows startup (in German "Bei Windowsstart mitstarten"). And the last two lines are for TEMP handling. The mark is for creating the TEMP folder in the RAM Disk and the button is to change Windows environment variables to use the RAM Disk as Temp instead of C:\Windows\Temp and the other path used for this. Then go to the tab "Data" ("Daten" in German). [ATTACH=full]180978[/ATTACH] Here you have to select the previous created folder "RamDisk" containing the "Timeshift" folder. This way the "Timeshift" folder will be generated on every Windows Start and can be used for Timeshifting in MP. If you have a look at "Advanced" Tab ("Fortgeschritten" in German). Here you can set a volume name ("Laufwerksname") for your RAM Disk. [ATTACH=full]180979[/ATTACH] All other options you better not touch unless you really know what you are doing... Setting all TEMP folders to the RAM Disk has the advantage that TEMP is cleared on every restart. Normally TEMP folders are growing and growing until all available space on C: is occupied as most programs don't remove their garbage there. Aside this it lowers the write accesses on your SSD what may increase the lifetime of your SSD... [/QUOTE]

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