CacheBooster

CacheBooster is a small software application whose purpose is to help you tweak your hard disk cache in order to boost the performance of your system.

The GUI is straightforward and allows you to tweak the dedicated parameters with minimal effort. There’s also support for a ‘Readme’ file that includes details about the configuration settings in case you do not manage to set up the process on your own.

The tool is unobtrusive and resides in your system tray area so it does not interfere with your work. A double-click on its tray icon opens up the configuration panel, while a right-click enables you to quickly activate a preset cache profile.

CacheBooster gives you the possibility to choose between several predefined cache profiles from a drop-down list, such as CD Burner, File Server, Gaming, Power User, Multimedia, and General Purpose. In order to apply the adjustments correctly to your system, you need to restart the computer.

What’s more, you are given the freedom to design your own cache profile by specifying the name and providing details about the minimum and maximum disk cache, chunk size, name cache, as well as directory cache. You are allowed to enable or disable the aforementioned cache parameters.

A few general options hidden under the hood help you make the application remain on top of other windows, start the program minimized, as well as ask for reboot for applying the current settings.

CacheBooster comes packed with several handy features for helping you configure different disk cache settings. On the downside, the utility has not been updated for a long time so you can make use of its optimization capabilities especially on older operating systems.