README for Outer Technologies Cacheman 5.11 for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
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Copyright (c) 1997-2001 by Outer Technologies.
All Rights Reserved. Other brands and their products are
trademarks of their respective holders.

Welcome
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Cacheman is a utility designed to improve the performance of your
computer by optimizing the disk cache, memory and a number of other
settings. Cacheman is able to prevent frequent paging to the hard
disk, resulting in improved performance, system reaction time and
stability. Wizards and predefined profiles make it suitable for
novices and yet it is also powerful and versatile enough for the
more experienced user. Cacheman also corrects generic problems on
systems with more than 512MB of RAM.

Installation
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To install Cacheman run setup.exe.

Version History
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5.11

- Several bug fixes
- Optimized profiles
- More accurate Paging file usage info on Windows 2000/XP systems

5.1

- Predefined profiles
- Extreme recovery mode
- More tolerant to registry settings damaged by other tweak programs
- Disable NTFS last access update setting
- Recover memory now hotkey
- Optional Log size limit
- Improved uninstaller (restores pre-installation system settings)

5.0 

- Complete program rewrite 
- Memory Recovery 
- Profiles (revert back to old configuration) 
- Win NT4/2000/XP support added 
- Wizards (Guide through all settings) 
- CdRom Cache & Icon Cache optimization 
- Improved Name & Path Cache configuration 
- Logging 
- System configuration report creation 
- Several new options 
- New performance settings like IO Page Lock Limit, Disable
  Executive Paging or IO Page Buffers 
- New tweak settings like Wait to Kill App Timeout or
  Filename completion 
- Improved Help File 

4.1 

- Larger Read Ahead and Name Cache settings allowed 
- Unload Dlls setting 
- Stop history graphs when hidden option 
- Some minor bugs fixed 

Distribution
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We allow the free distribution of Cacheman, but we retain ownership
and copyright of Cacheman and its source code in its entirety.
You may distribute Cacheman only subject to the following conditions: 

You are allowed to distribute Cacheman through the Internet, BBS's,
Shareware distribution libraries, CD-ROMs and Magazine Cover Media.
You may charge a distribution fee for the package, but you must not
represent in any way that you are selling Cacheman itself. You have
to inform us before any distribution at distribution@outertech.com,
we will send you information about new Cacheman releases. Cacheman
may be bundled and distributed together with other software products. 

You may not modify the program or documentation files in any way.
You must include all the files that were in the original
distribution. You may not decouple or otherwise reduce Cacheman
to a human perceivable form. You may not sell Cacheman or charge
a distribution fee, except to recover the media costs. 

Status
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Cacheman 1.0-4.1 has been released as Freeware. During the last 6
months the program has been completely rewritten. We are forced to
try to get the development costs back. The simplest way for us to
achieve this would be to disable certain key features or to convert
the distribution to a time limited version. We are opposed to taking
the easy way out since we would not like our user base to be reduced
drastically. Alternatively, we could bundle Cacheman with a third
party software and receive distribution fees. Many Freeware programs
are going this path nowadays. We decided not to distribute Cacheman
in this way since all software bundles we have examined have a major
drawback - the additional third party software spies out user data!
(Visit http://www.spychecker.com/ for more information).

After a long discussion we have come up with a unique way to
license Cacheman: 

You can evaluate Cacheman for 15 days.

1. Private/Educational usage 

In order to keep using Cacheman you have to register.
The registration fee for Cacheman is $10. Since most users cannot
afford $10, Cacheman has no disabled features and no time limit.
If you really cannot afford the shareware fee you are allowed to
use Cacheman as Freeware. All updates for registered users will
be free even if we should be forced to change the license to
Shareware only with the next major release. 

2. Commercial/Corporate usage 

If you want to keep using Cacheman you have to pay a $10
(Single User license) Shareware fee. Multi User and Corporate/Site
licenses are available on the registration page. 

Contacting Outertech 
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Program usage and performance related support is only available
for registered users. Please write to cacheman-support@outertech.com,
you should receive an answer within 24 hours. Be sure to include your
customer ID and system information (you can create a report in
Cacheman's File menu). 

Non-support requests like bug reports & comments should be
send to development@outertech.com.

Homepage: http://www.outertech.com
