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- │PC-KWIK Power PAK and │
- │ Power Disk │
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- by Tony Curro
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- Cache software does truly speed up your system. If you are running
- a system with only 640K, you might have to look to a higher power! You can
- have a cache as small as 64K or as large as the amount of EXTended or
- EXPanded memory on your system.
-
- The PC-Kwik Power PAK consists of a set of programs to speed up
- more than your disk drives. In addition to the disk cache, we have a screen
- accelerator (and blanker), keyboard accelerator, print spooler, and
- command-line editor. Currently the new version 2.1 also comes bundled with
- the PC-Kwik Power Disk, which is a disk optimizer. This is a $79.95 bonus
- added to the PAK for a limited time. More about Power Disk later.
-
- The multiple award winning software package is compatible with
- 386-to-the Max, QEMM, DESQview and Windows 3.0 and higher. Works with all
- types of disk drives, including floppies, IDE, SCSI, ESDI (which I have),
- Bernoulli, Syquest, and Plus Passport.
-
- For those who do not like to read, installation is just a few
- seconds away. Just pop the disk in either drive A: or B: (it comes with
- both 5.25 and 3.5 disks), switch to the drive and type INSTALL. PC-Kwik
- will detect what you have on your system. Basically you can just accept the
- defaults. It will ask if you use Windows and/or DESQview. The obvious
- answer is always highlighted. If you wish to add support for Win or DV even
- though they are not currently installed you would just select the YES
- option. PC-Kwik will create a directory on the drive of your choice. In
- addition it will modify, if you wish, your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
- files, adding the appropriate lines to each. If you do not choose this
- option, PC-Kwik will create the two files in its own directory. Then by
- viewing them you can see what lines need to be added to your actual startup
- files.
-
- The Screen Accelerator speeds up your screen display, and has a
- screen blanker. It also has a ReVIEW option; which by pressing ScrollLock,
- you can scroll your screen to see things that have since disappeared off
- the top top of the screen. The default buffer for this is 16K, but can be
- expanded to meet your needs.
-
- The Keyboard Accelerator has a feature that's called ReDOS. ReDOS is a
- feature that has a pop up box to show you the previous commands you used.
- By using the up or down arrow you can select a command you wish to use.
- Pressing return on the high lighted option will execute that command
- without you having to retype it. Understand that the keyboard accelerator
- may not work with some keyboards. I use an OmniKey ULTRA from Northgate and
- cannot use it.
-
- The Print Spooler takes the text that needs to be printed and
- allows you to get back to working much quicker. I have printed 25 or more
- pages and was working within minutes, while my printer continued to print
- in the background.
-
- PC-Kwik also has a RAM DISK option, and a generic cache driver that
- you use for Bernoulli drives. All these operations are very seamless. What
- makes them so, is that once Kwik is loaded it lends portions of the cache
- to these programs as needed. So if you are not printing, the print spooler
- can lend its resources to say the screen accelerator or other application.
- The same is done with Windows. On some system you may have to start Windows
- with the command: WIN /3, to force it into ENHanced mode. On most systems
- just running Windows the way normally do will make Kwik give up the memory
- needed for Windows. PC-Kwik is also faster and smoother than using
- SmartDRive.
-
- The Power PAK has been rated at speeding your computer up 3 to 10
- times faster. With awards from PC Magazine, PC World and Software Digest,
- they must be doing something right.
-
- I have tested Norton's Cache, and a shareware product called
- HyperDisk, and have found PC Kwik far and above the fastest. HyperDisk does
- have a product called SpeedKit, which has features similar to Kwik,
- Keyboard, Screen and Disk accelerators; options for Hyper seem a bit
- cumbersome. PC Kwik has a smooth flow and well done documentation, which is
- rare to find, and each feature has it own section. So if you need
- information about screen accelerator, you do not have to read about the
- cache or keyboard programs. In addition it comes with a quick reference
- card with ALL the options and commands for the whole package. Also I run a
- program that requires extra memory. When I run NCACHE, I must first disable
- it to be able to use the memory. With PC-KWIK, I just run my program and
- Kwik automatically frees up the required amount of memory. As I said
- earlier, it runs seamless. You do not know it is there, but you remember
- when you see how fast everything moves.
-
-
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- PC-KWIK POWER DISK
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-
- As I stated earlier, when you buy the PC-KWIK PowerPAK v2.1 you also get a
- $79.95 bonus of their award winning Power Disk. Power Disk is a disk
- optimizer. It can do a surface scan of your drive and give you suggestions
- of which options to use. You have several options that you can select; move
- fragmented files, move unfragmented files to front, put entire directories
- in order with their files, or defragment files into empty spaces. You can
- also have it check your disk on bootup. As its sister program, you just pop
- disk in and say INSTALL. It will even detect the PCKWIK directory and place
- it's files in there. Power Disk also can check the sectors on your drive
- for any possible bad sectors.
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- ╓──────────────────────────╖
- ║ Product Information ║
- ╟──────────────────────────╢
- ║ Super PC-Kwik Power Pak ║
- ║ w/PC-Kwik Power Disk ║
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- ║ Multisoft Corporation ║
- ║ 15100 SW Koll Parkway ║
- ║ Beaverton, OR 97006-6026 ║
- ║ (800) 395-KWIK ║
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- Copyright (c) 1992 by Tony Curro. All Rights Reserved.