Hare - What do you think?

[XPero]

Brief description:

Hare: the best acceleration utility for PC.

With Hare, accelerate any computer up to 300%, even latest generation PCs using Pentium 4 or Athlon MP; simply install Hare and be accelerated.

This can be found in the FAQ section:

# Hare technology: the core of Hare is a re-written Kernel, working at up to 88-bit (instead of the standard 32-bit) and accelerating most basic system actions by acting as the Windows Kernel. This is done by triple-buffering all I/O data, in order to achieve an emulated 88-bit Kernel. This technology is fully safe and we have implemented safeguards in order to make it impossible to damage your computer.

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What do you think? Is this another promising app that does nothing for our PCs?

[jaclaz]

Haven't tested, yet, but I smell something fishy:

From here:

http://www.dachshundsoftware.com/hare/hfaq.html

Q. Hare seems to be a low-level utility. Are you sure it can't damage my computer? [back]Hare cannot damage your computer, for 2 reasons:

While it is a low-level utility, it is full of safeguards which will automatically stop Hare if any problem is encountered.

Hare makes all necessary low-level hooks in RAM. This has two advantages: the hooks are applied immediately (RAM is very fast), and if there is any problem, RAM can be erased and restored without any problem, since it is volatile and doesn't survive through program launching or, even better, rebooting.

Hare is on the market since 2001 and no one ever experienced crash or data loss because of it.

It's quite strange it is not the best-selling app of years 2001/2002/2003 and 2004, expecially because

Hare technology: the core of Hare is a re-written Kernel, working at up to 88-bit (instead of the standard 32-bit) and accelerating most basic system actions by acting as the Windows Kernel. This is done by triple-buffering all I/O data, in order to achieve an emulated 88-bit Kernel. This technology is fully safe and we have implemented safeguards in order to make it impossible to damage your computer.

And it is

System Requirements 

Compatible with

Windows 95/98/98SE/Me

Windows NT/2000

Windows XP

jaclaz

[LiquidSage]

I tried it for a while about a year ago (and anti crash) and i really didn't see too much of an improvement. I will admit that i found the Battery Doubler app to be useful. It did bring a bit of new life in my laptop battery.

[XtremeMaC]

yes i've tried all of their products, i haven't seen much difference. also they haven't released anything new since 2002-3 or something..

[socialdiscord]

removed

Edited January 11, 2005 by Doggie

[un4given1]

@socialdiscord

How is this topic relevant to your post? Also, you join today and your first post is an advertisement... that's just disrespectful. Get a life.

[jaclaz]

I tested it a little bit.

The only thing that seems nice is the ability to give more "power" to foreground app, at the cost (quite obviously) to really slowdown background apps.

Maybe there is a misunderstanding between "speed" and "responsiveness".

I made some search on the matter, it seems to be quite popular between gamers, but cannot say that's just because it "looks" nifty.

The built-in benchmark is a laugh, it just starts and in no time says that system has accelerated (in my case 65%), it does not say in WHAT!

Real benchmarks are a different thing.

Here is a related thread on another board:

http://forum.misec.net/board/3PSoftware/1091705057

that seems to me quite realistic.

jaclaz

[weEvil]

Any more developments on this? i just got the software. Trial versions.

I need something to speed up my old(er) PC a bit. Got plenty of RAM (1 Gig) and I don't plan on upgrading hardware.

[Jeremy]

Holy Thread Resurrection, Batman!

Clean temp/cache, defragment, use resource-friendly apps. Use Linux even.

Save money and get better hardware. It isn't exactly expensive these days.

[weEvil]

Holy Thread Resurrection, Batman!

I know. I just did a search. i just found the software, so I decided to see what the general consesus is.

Clean temp/cache, defragment, use resource-friendly apps. Use Linux even.

Done, done, and done. No Linux. Most friendly distros (sabayon, ubuntu.. even with XFCE) are slower than my nLited Server 2003.

Save money and get better hardware. It isn't exactly expensive these days.

I'm waiting for AMD to release that Phenom, and their new set of graphics cards. Huge value hardware.

In the meantime, I'm looking for something that can make the most out of the hardware that I have.

[DigeratiPrime]

i dont know of any software that will make your hardware run faster except for overclocking tools (see hardware forum). I have yet to be convinced by any software claiming to make the system more responsive, usually the opposite occurs because more running application means more resources being used. Have you tried disabling unneeded services?

[RJARRRPCGP]

Not free=A waste!

For the same price, I possibly can drop in a faster used processor!

Edited October 1, 2007 by RJARRRPCGP

[weEvil]

Not free=A waste!

For the same price, I possibly can drop in a faster used processor!

Lets suppose it was free....

How does it compare to other things like registry tweaks, modified drivers and etc?

i dont know of any software that will make your hardware run faster except for overclocking tools (see hardware forum). I have yet to be convinced by any software claiming to make the system more responsive, usually the opposite occurs because more running application means more resources being used. Have you tried disabling unneeded services?

I am using tweaks for the registry.

nLited system. No fancy XP-style eye 'candy' (I use that loosely)

Tweaked drivers.

And of course everything that does not need to be on is either turned off or removed altogether.

Oh and the system is slightly overclocked. FSB only.

Edited October 2, 2007 by puntoMX