Ricsi,
Maybe I can find the book again at the library. I was surprised to
see smartdrv in autoexec as well as in config.sys. Don't know how that
happened (or when) It had been over a year since I had even looked
at either of these files. I'm not very disciplined about this, I
must admit. Nor very knowledgable. I'm a very ordainary DOS user with
no technical background.
I've made most of the changes suggested and my system seems a little
faster and more stable. So far no crashes.
Yes, I've thought of using ctmouse--but I've already got unused upper
memory, so what would it gain me?
Sam E.
On Fri, 09 Feb 2001 16:20:20 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote:
> Hi
> 09 Feb 2001, "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> SE> Smartdrv is not in my autoexec.bat because of a book I read and it
> SE> works this way.
> what has this book said ...
> I can't imagine any reason for having it in config.sys
> (expect double_buffer which you apparently not use, and which is only
> necessary, if you have an ISA SCSI adapter)
> SE> I used 4 megs for the cache because of the reccomendation in the MS
> SE> documenation.
> it's absolute overkill ... it takes too much memory away from other
> programs .... use 1024-2048
> SE> What's highscan?
> It's a parameter of emm386 which tells it to be more aggressive when
> searching for upper memory.
> If your computer does not crash, than use it !
> === Begin file ===
>> LH /L:2,36064 MOUSE
> use another mouse driver, which takes up less memory.
> ctmouse, imouse, ...
>> LH /L:0;2,45472 /S SMARTDRV.EXE /N 4096 0 /E:8192 /B:32 /V
> ??? I thought that you load smartdrv from config.sys ....
> === End file ===
> kill all /l: and /s ...
> if you have less memory than before, you could allways rerun memmaker !
> SE> Sam Ewalt
> CU, Ricsi
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