saving temporary internet files in sd card?

[vincentnyc]

does anyone know how to store temporary internet files on my sd card instead of the pda memory? thanx in advance.

Some memory tweaker apps like MemMaid (answering from my Axim so no links, sorry) can do this for you automatically.

Chris...

Using a registry editor, navigate to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\Shell Folders
There are 3 keys, Cache, Cookies & History, modify each one, changing the \Windows to \Sd Card.
Do a soft reset and you'll bee all set.

Great thing about this hack is that you can delete all the files in the temp folders by removing and re-installing the SD Card before using File Explorer or something similar to delete the whole folder!

Gary

[vincentnyc]

does saving your temporary ie files to your sd card affects the performance of the pda in any way or the speed of surfing the web? thanx.

does saving your temporary ie files to your sd card affects the performance of the pda in any way or the speed of surfing the web? thanx.

A little bit because of the write speed of most of the SD cards and the speed of the Axim's SD slot. If you decide to pursue this, I recommend GDIO's manual registry method. I used MemMaid, and ran into an issue when I went to put the TEMP PIE folder back into main memory. This may have since been fixed in a recent release of MemMaid. From my recollection, it did slow surgfing down a bit because it had to wait for the page to write the files to the SD card. I also notice a slowdown using NetFront, and I cache temp files to SD card with it. I leave the PIE Temp Internet Files in Main Memory, and clear them out after each browsing session using Pocket Mechanic.

[GoAvs]

does saving your temporary ie files to your sd card affects the performance of the pda in any way or the speed of surfing the web? thanx.

Yes, negatively affects performance. Even with a very fast memory card, my X30h PIE slowed to a crawl when surfing. I switched back to keeping the temps in RAM.

[HighTymes]

Hmm, was thinkin of doin this until i kept readin through the posts. My Kingston has pretty terrible write send even when card reader but read speed is very fast. I took my 2 minutes to copy the 400+MBs of files off my SD card but it is going to take around 30 to put them back on it :(

Is there anyway to limit the size PIE can cache on ram?

Hmm, was thinkin of doin this until i kept readin through the posts. My Kingston has pretty terrible write send even when card reader but read speed is very fast. I took my 2 minutes to copy the 400+MBs of files off my SD card but it is going to take around 30 to put them back on it :(

Is there anyway to limit the size PIE can cache on ram?

Yep, MemMaid can do this, and I believe RegKing as well. I'm sure it's just modifying a registry value, and I'm not sure which value that is off the top of my head . . .