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Re: The meaning of "Disable hybrid boot" option in the installer
2 years ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
Yes, this will turn off Windows Fast Startup, though the system will still boot comparably fast. It's okay not to disable it, but there may be some side effects like files and folders remaining on a RAM disk after shutdown.
Re: Feature request: Dark Mode
2 years ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
That we can do. Simply download the latest build and you should be able to set different fonts to the column headers and data rows.
Re: How to move Windows Temp files to RAM disk
2 years ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
There are two kinds of TEMP environment variables in Windows: user-level and system-level. The former is used by regular applications you launch. The latter is used by the system and services. When you change the TMP/TEMP variables from the RAM Disk app, it only modifies the user-level variables. This is done for safety, because the system-level temporary folders are crucial for normal operatio
Re: Multi-user access or shared config database
2 years ago, by Andrew in Switch Port Mapper Forum
We have updated Port Mapper, and now the portable version can be safely shared over network. The new build can be downloaded here. Simply place it in a writable network folder, and it should handle concurrent access correctly. Opening the first instance will create a lock file. Opening a second instance will result in a message like shown below. Please note that it must be launched from a s
Re: Multi-user access or shared config database
2 years ago, by Andrew in Switch Port Mapper Forum
This is indeed a challenging issue. In order to be multi-user friendly Port Mapper would need to handle concurrent additions, deletions and modifications to its data. Yet as you correctly mentioned, it's a single-user piece of software and adding that functionality is far from simple. Instead, we can modify it so that when it's open, it will refuse to open more than one instance. Then you could
Re: RAM disk .IMG file corruption
2 years ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
Unfortunately it's not that simple. RAM Disk would need to keep a list of blocks somewhere else in an external file, deal with keeping two images up to date, and that's a lot of extra functionality and instability risks for something that is an auxiliary function and something that may not even solve the original problem. On a related note, we did run a continuous cycle of writing random files
Re: RAM disk .IMG file corruption
2 years ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
It's a little complicated with writing into two image files. We use partial writing where an image is divided into 2 MB blocks and only changed blocks are written back to the image. For example, if you had a 1 GB image and only a couple of small files were changed, all we need to write is 2-4 MB of the changed blocks rather than the entire image. This greatly reduces SSD's wear-and-tear and increa
Re: RAM disk .IMG file corruption
2 years ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
Unfortunately it is still unknown why this happens, so we recommend having a frequent backup of any image files. The vast majority of users never have any issues, but there are clearly some who experience this problem. Some users mentioned that they had PC clean-up programs like CCleaner, and those somehow interfered with the image files and caused corruption. Unfortunately we were unable to repro
Re: Enhancing multi-clause filters
2 years ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
We have added basic filter editing in the latest builds. This is what it looks like:
Re: Devices on guest network/subnet not detected
2 years ago, by Andrew in WiFi Guard Forum
In your case the router does packet forwarding between 192.168.1.x and 192.168.101.x. They are different subnets, and the ARP protocol used for MAC address resolution does not work across subnets. Since WiFi Guard uses MAC addresses for device identification, it cannot receive any MAC addresses from the guest network. This is why the devices are not listed in its output. You can check this b
Re: Feature request: Internal updater
2 years ago, by Andrew in NetWorx Forum
At the moment we don't use automatic updaters. The reason behind it is that we prefer the user to make an informed choice, i.e. to check what has changed and decide whether they wish to update or not. But I do agree, your idea makes sense if we could present three options to keep everyone happy: Don't check for updates. Check for updates and update automatically. Check for updates and let the
Re: Device IP addresses don't match the scan results
2 years ago, by Andrew in WiFi Guard Forum
Sorry, it's hard to tell without seeing it. It has never happened in testing and no one has reported this in years. This theoretically may be the case if you use any WiFi range extenders or repeaters, as these tend to play up with MAC addresses. Would you be able to post a screen shot of WiFi Guard together with a screen shot of your HP computer current IP configuration?
Re: How to export and import the settings
2 years ago, by Andrew in NetWorx Forum
Yes, simply use the backup/restore buttons under Usage Reports, as shown below. These functions back up the entire database, including all settings.
Re: Browser cache relocation for multiple profiles, with specified size
2 years ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
We don't really know, it's better to ask in the Chrome community. I suppose if you pass --disk-cache-dir and --disk-cache-size, it will apply to the newly created process and its child processes. That is, the effect will be per profile, but again, it's best to ask the Google's community.
2 years ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
It depends on what kind of scan you are using the credentials for, but generally Domain\User or User@Domain should work.
Re: Support for video (GPU) RAM disks
2 years ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
The rationale for not using GPU is basically what you have just mentioned: It's much slower than RAM and may even be slower than SSDs. It's expensive as GPUs with a lot of VRAM doubled and tripled in price recently. I am not familiar with the "32 GB barrier", e.g. we have a system here with 96 GB of RAM and it's 5 years old. Most modern motherboards should support over 32 GB RAM, e
Re: Feature Request: IP range open and collapse
2 years ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
It would be difficult to implement as the current implementation assumes that devices are at the root level in the tree and shares folders are at the second level. Anyway, if you want to hide some ranges from the flat list of devices, you can simply add a filter with IP address ranges of interest.
Re: Motherboard RAM limitations
2 years ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
I am not sure, it may have been a different ramdisk product. Our RAM Disk can use as much RAM as Windows can use. If Windows somehow sees 128 GB on a 64 GB board, it will work. Otherwise it will not.
Re: Persistent RAM Disk with size larger than available RAM
2 years ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
A RAM Disk is a block storage that resides entirely in RAM, therefore it can't be larger than available RAM. I guess what you are looking for is a pass-through disk cache, in which case this product might help. Please note that we are not related to that company in any way, and this is not a recommendation or endorsement of that product, merely a suggestion.
2 years ago, by Andrew in NetWorx Forum
Unfortunately there is no way to get the offline data. The reason for that is download/upload counters in SNMP are 32-bit values, so they roll over every 4 GB transferred (2^32). Say, if when you turned off the computer the download counter was 100,000 and after you turned it back on it was 200,000 we cannot reliably tell how many times the counter rolled over during the time offline. In other
2 years ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
No I am afraid a RAM disk can't be used in RAID array. But even if it were possible, it would make little sense. While RAID0 can be created with disks of differing sizes, but the storage space added to the array by each disk is limited to the size of the smallest disk. For example, if a 16 GB RAM disk is striped together with a 100 GB SDD, the size of the array will be 32 GB (16 GB × 2). An
2 years ago, by Andrew in WiFi Guard Forum
Simply add the /hide parameter to wifiguard.exe. It will then start minimised. If no parameter is given, it assumes a regular start and shows its main window.
2 years ago, by Andrew in WiFi Guard Forum
It sounds like you are trying to automatically start WiFi Guard from your own shortcut or registry entry. Instead, simply tick the corresponding option in WiFi Guard's settings as shown below. After reboot it will start minimised to the notification area:
3 years ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
We have fixed this IP input behaviour on 7 April 2021. Now, entering the dot will only advance the position if there is a filled octet. Therefore typing 192 (dot) 168 (dot) will enter 192.168. It is likely that you have an earlier build, in which case please download the latest builds.
Re: When is a new version going to be out?
3 years ago, by Andrew in Bandwidth Manager Forum
Bandwidth Manager is mostly feature-complete and therefore is not in active development. There will be a new version once we have accumulated a sufficient number of fixes and improvements.
3 years ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
Version 4.0.9 released on 2019-05-14 is the last RAM Disk version that supports Windows XP. We have re-uploaded the exe file to the above location, so the link to RAM Disk v4.0.9 is now working again.
Re: Fully volatile system with boot from a RAM disk
3 years ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
Not with our product. It requires a running copy of Windows to operate and can't be used to boot any OS. Unless you run a virtual machine and place its hard disk image on a RAM Disk, but performance-wise it will not be great.
3 years ago, by Andrew in NetGenius Forum
Sorry we were unable to reproduce this issue on a Windows 10 system with Fast Boot. Most likely there is a conflict with another network filter that is initialised at the same time. As a workaround I would suggest: either disabling Fast Boot, or configuring the NetGenius service to start a bit later by changing the Startup Type to Automatic (Delayed Start) in the list of services
Re: Scanning for network printers
3 years ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
Thanks for the feedback. I am happy to advise that we have implemented Web Services for Devices (WSD) discovery in the latest builds. You can find it under Actions - WSD Device Discovery. It should detect all WSD-capable devices, of which you can select printers and click Scan Devices to scan them in the main window. The bugs with filters and applications have been fixed as well.
Re: Scanning for network printers
3 years ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
Thank you, the icon issue was just fixed. Not sure how it happened as it's got back by itself after a rebuild. Regarding scanning for printers, I don't think there is a reliable way to say whether a specific device is a printer. You can scan for devices with certain ports open. Alternatively, employ the Nmap integration and scan for all devices. Then filter out those with the device type being