At a DOS 5 or higher prompt, enter "help ramdrive.sys" (no "s).  If you have
programs that are slow loading, which you normally load several times in
a session, it can save you time.  Ramdrive gives you a "virtual disk",
carving out a chunk of RAM as big as you want.  If you always use an
application, you can copy it to ramdrive in your autoexec.bat.  This will
cause a one-time delay on startup, but every time you use it, it is "already"
in RAM.

Drawbacks: If you don't use whatever you copied to Ramdrive, you wasted
that time.  If you saved something to Ramdrive, and the power died, or the
system crashed or rebooted before you saved it to a "real" disk, it's GONE.
If you specify too much memory for Ramdrive, you will slow (or stop) Windows.

Try it out.  Let us know how you feel about it.

Boyd Ramsay

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