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Re: Are there any limitations on creating numerous RAM disks?
2 years ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
That sounds good. Several customers use our RAM Disk as Adobe Photoshop scratch disk, so it should speed up PixInsight as well. It's probably easier to create folders from the RAM Disk software directly, however if you are going to use image files for persistent storage, this option will not be available. The reason for that is RAM Disk can automatically create new folders on a volatile RAM dis
Re: Are there any limitations on creating numerous RAM disks?
2 years ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
If I understood you correctly and you are planning to create 16 RAM disks 2 GB each, it should be possible provided that you have enough available drive letters in your system. But it's probably better to create one 32 GB RAM disk with 16 folders on it instead. Hardware specifics don't really matter because RAM Disk runs above Windows HAL (hardware abstraction layer). As long as Windows can see
Re: Files saved to image despite deselected "save contents to image" setting
2 years ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
We have some good news here. First of all, thank you for pursuing this and for sending the files. You were right about the bug with disk contents being saved to image when it was not supposed to happen. It was a bug in our code, but we could not reproduce it earlier because it required a very particular series of actions that was impossible guess without the additional information you provided:
Re: Discrepancy in the usage reports
2 years ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
It is hard to say which one is correct as DU Meter and NetWorx are used in different modes in your case. DU Meter simply monitors the number of bytes sent over a network interface. NetWorx can do that too, but in your case it's configured to track process activity, which occasionally might produce incorrect readings, depending on the network drivers installed in your system. So my advice would
Re: Enter Licence Key menu is greyed out
2 years ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
It sounds like you might have tweaked some settings that led to this. To fix the issue, please try the following: 1. Quit the RAM Disk application via File - Exit in the main menu. It is crucial to use this way instead of closing the window with . 2. Open this file in Notepad: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\SoftPerfect\RAM Disk\ramdisk.xml and change the following line <useraccess>false</use
Re: Specify transmission modification for outgoing or incoming traffic only
2 years ago, by Ann in Connection Emulator Forum
The Incoming and Outgoing options under the Transfer tab affect all features, not just the speed limit. So you can simulate one-way latency and/or loss if needed.
Re: How to get RAM disk to show in Task Manager
2 years ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
If you are referring to the Performance tab in the Task Manager, tick the Hard Disk Emulation setting in the RAM Disk's properties. This will enable the emulation of a real/physical device, and it will be shown in the Task Manager as a regular disk: The purpose of Hard Disk Emulation is to emulate a complete hard disk drive with partitions indistinguishable from a real device. Some speciali
Re: Specify transmission modification for outgoing or incoming traffic only
2 years ago, by Ann in Connection Emulator Forum
No, I am afraid that's not possible. You can set corruption and/or loss in one or both directions, but not loss in one direction and corruption in another. I.e. the traffic direction setting affects all modifications in the same way.
Re: How to list devices by Ethernet or Wireless connectivity
2 years ago, by Ann in WiFi Guard Forum
Unfortunately there no way to tell if a device is connected by cable or wirelessly. Theoretically, it could be deduced from the ping response time, which is usually higher for wireless connections, but this method is not reliable.
Re: Files saved to image despite deselected "save contents to image" setting
2 years ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
Thank you for reporting the results. I suspect the culprit would be the Shadow Copy Service also known as VSS. If System Restore is enabled, it might think that the user profile is crucial for system functioning and needs to be backed up. Then on next boot it realises that the user profile is missing or changed, and tries to restore it. Since Shadow Copy/VSS does NOT support standalone volumes
Re: Files saved to image despite deselected "save contents to image" setting
2 years ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
Most likely, this issue is caused by one of these two: Hybrid boot. If you have hybrid boot enabled (default Windows behaviour), it will keep files between sessions. Please see this article for workarounds. Hard disk emulation. Try the same setup, but without hard disk emulation. I.e. create an image as a standalone volume and do NOT tick "Hard-disk Emulation" in RAM disk properties.
Re: How to print the list of IP addresses
2 years ago, by Ann in Network Scanner Forum
You can do it very easily: Save that list to HTML and print it from your browser. Or save it to a text file and print it from Windows Notepad.
Re: Option to wipe/overwrite contents of any file when deleted from RAM disk
2 years ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
A RAM disk is a simple block storage residing in memory. It does not have the concept of files or file systems as those are of a higher-level abstraction in the OS. So it's not possible to wipe the memory holding deleted files. Moreover, such wiping is unnecessary as all memory contents completely disappear on reboot, shutdown or power loss. But if you still want to securely wipe free space on
Re: Unrecognised 192.168.0.x IP address
2 years ago, by Ann in WiFi Guard Forum
WiFi Guard always reports intranet addresses as 192.168.x.x. It's only a matter of figuring out if they belong to your devices or not. For example, if 192.168.0.1 is your router and 192.168.0.2 is your laptop, the question to ask is what's 192.168.0.5? Think of what in your place has access to the Internet: sometimes you can guess what it is from the device name or network card's manufacturer.
Re: License for occasional use at multiple customer sites
2 years ago, by Ann in Network Scanner Forum
In this case, a single device licence and the portable edition of the software is all you need. With that, you will be able to deploy Network Scanner at a customer machine whenever needed and run in there. It's okay to leave it there temporarily and run another copy on a different machine if you need to. As long as they are not used at the same time, or by other people/company, one licence is s
Re: Report and log download and upload speeds per second
2 years ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
NetWorx does not update any stats with 1 second resolution other than the usage graph (and that's for about an hour). If you really want to know the DL/UL rates every second, then the CSV file option should work. It is likely that the locked file errors are caused by an antivirus product on your system. For example, if NetWorx writes to the file every second and in between the antivirus looks f
Re: Does Cache Relocator require Admin privileges?
2 years ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
The Cache Relocator software is not designed for multi-account systems or corporate environments. It works by creating symbolic links. On Windows, creating symbolic link requires admin privileges. If you have an admin account on that computer, you can create symbolic links manually using command prompt and the mklink command. Alternatively Chromimum-based browsers can be configured to use a spe
Re: How to scan network shares for specific files
2 years ago, by Ann in Network Scanner Forum
If you are looking for a tool to search for specific files in LAN, you can take a look at our LAN Search Pro. It is currently available for free, but it is a discontinued product, i.e. there will be no further updates, releases or support provided for this software, and some functionality may not work on newer systems.
Re: How to increase RAM available to a certain application
2 years ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
It really depends on how your simulation application works in the browser. For example, if the simulation is mainly computational, then it will need RAM and CPU power with little use of the disk cache. But if the simulation does a lot of disk I/O and keeps data in browser cache, then it will obviously benefit from a RAM disk. For regular browsing, it is beneficial to move the cache to a RAM dis
Re: How to increase RAM available to a certain application
2 years ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
That's not quite what our RAM Disk product does. What you seemingly want is to give browser more RAM, while our product instead takes some RAM and turns it into a disk drive. I suppose the only way to speed up those simulations is to use a 64-bit browser and install more physical RAM. Having said that, it's worth trying different browsers to see which one performs best at these tasks.
DHCP Discovery not working on macOS - Fixed
2 years ago, by Ann in Network Scanner Forum
Thank you for your report. We have just fixed the issue preventing DHCP discovery from working in Network Scanner for macOS. It should now work on macOS 10.14 and above. Earlier macOS versions did not allow unprivileged users to open ports below 1024, which is needed for DHCP discovery to work. Please download the latest build and overwrite your currently installed copy. DHCP discovery should w
Re: Compatibility with Windows 11
2 years ago, by Ann in RAM Disk Forum
Yes, it should. We have tested it on the latest Windows 11 preview and everything worked as expected.
Re: Centralized reporting from remote computers
2 years ago, by Ann in NetGenius Forum
There are two ways to extract usage data from NetGenius: 1. Via the same API command that the management console uses. The advantage of this method is that the data is real-time and can be requested over network. For example, with cURL: curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -d "<root><command>XmlGetProcessUsage</command><type>0</type><sta
Re: Centralized reporting from remote computers
2 years ago, by Ann in NetGenius Forum
NetGenius consists of two major components: the System Service that does all the monitoring work, and the Management Console (GUI) that enables you to interact with the service. The System Service is installed on the computer(s) you want to monitor and control, and the Management Console is installed on the computer(s) you want to do the monitoring and controlling from and see the reports on.
Re: Centralized reporting from remote computers
2 years ago, by Ann in NetGenius Forum
If the PC has an accessible IP address, you can simply connect to the remote sites by clicking Connect to... button in NetGenius menu. Then enter the IP address of the remote computer that is running the NetGenius service, and it will be added to the dashboard. You can have any number of remote computers connected and displayed as the same time.
Re: Download/Upload label position on taskbar graph
2 years ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
Thank you for the suggestion. We have updated NetWorx to display the values in the same order as NetGenius. It is now also using ▲▼ arrow symbols instead of D/U, as arrows work better in multilingual interface. You can download the new builds and see if you are happy with the new appearance. If the letters look too small for your liking, check the hidden settings for 'Rates font size'.
Re: Upload and Download appear to be reversed
2 years ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
It is possible that you selected an incorrect interface for SNMP monitoring. Typically a router would expose multiple network interfaces facing the Internet side and the LAN side. For example, if there are two interfaces, LAN (facing your local network) and WAN (facing the Internet), the traffic direction is opposite on the two of them. When you download something from the Internet, it is incom
Re: 'Received' numbers are higher than 'Sent'
2 years ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
This shouldn't be the case, unless the Workspaces application does something tricky like VPN or network traffic tunnelling. I would recommend downloading a file of a known size with Firefox to see if download and upload numbers are reflected correctly in NetWorx. Then, if the numbers are correct for Firefox, but not for Workspaces, it is likely that there is some kind of tunnelling in AWS. In t
Re: Applications and web-sites in Usage Report
2 years ago, by Ann in NetWorx Forum
The Applications tab was never removed - it is still there. In version 6.2.8, we have removed the list of IP addresses (web-sites) because from that version onwards a different type of monitoring is used. It is much more CPU-efficient, but alas cannot track individual IP addresses. So, if you install version 6.2.8 or any newer version, you will have the list of applications, but not web-sites.
Re: Export, edit and import of CSV files
2 years ago, by Ann in Network Scanner Forum
Thank you, we have checked the file and found the following issue: When exporting data to a CSV file, bookmark names are quoted, so the file looked like this: "Some long name",192.168.56.0-192.168.56.255 However after editing it in MS Excel, the quotes have been stripped and it became like this: Some long name,192.168.56.0-192.168.56.255 While this is still valid CSV, our implementati