This tool will set up your Windows 9X/2000/XP so that your Internet Explorer cache, cookies, URL history, and typed URLs are stored in RAM and never written to disk. This enables you to accept cookies for more convenient surfing without leaving traces of your comings and goings on your local machine after re-booting or powering off. This setup will not assure privacy on a workplace or public computer, which may contain monitoring software. However, it will be effective on any machine you own. Not even the most sophisticated forensics tool can re-construct your surfing history after a computer reboot, if the information is never written to disk in the first place.
The package can also be used to assign your temporary files, such as those created when you work on documents in Microsoft Office, to RAM, so that they will not be left behind when your Windows system inevitably crashes. Keep in mind that this feature defeats the auto-save feature in Office and other applications. If you enable this feature, open documents will revert to the last manually saved version prior to a crash. In addition, if you set temporary files to the RAM drive, you should disable the RAM drive before you install an application, as these sometimes require temporary files on the HDD to complete. Once your new application is installed and running properly, you can wipe any remaining temporary files and re-enable the feature.
The package utilizes RamDisk by Franck Uberto to create the RAM disk that is later utilized to store the sensitive files.
Please note that on a Win 2K/XP system, the user will have to be either logged in as Administrator or have Administrator privileges to make the necessary changes to the registry to make the tool work.
Also, if the switch does not work, again as Administrator, edit the registry and search for the strings "\cookies" and "\temporary internet files" (without the quotes) and change these fields to read "Z:\cookies" or "Z:\Temporary Internet Files" (without the quotes and assuming that Z: will
be your RAMDisk drive letter.)
