On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:04:44 +0100 (CET), you wrote:

> Hi

> 10 Nov 2001, "Laurie L Proud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

LP> It does not seem to make an improvement if I load Smartdrive.
LP> Everything seems to work very well now, and speed is very good. Now I
LP> know I am on dodgy ground asking this but...Is W 95 cacheing my
LP> harddrive by using something other than Smartdrive.exe ??

> In Windows you don't need smartdrv.
> Windows comes with a MUCH superior caching software.
> Called VCache.
> (it was even available in win 3.11, win 3.1 still needed smartdrv)

> You only need smartdrv in DOS mode of win9x. (eg bootgui=0 or f8 -> dos)

> Anyways Vcache comes from dos ... so it has the following problems.
> There are very strange problems if you have more than 512 MB of memory.
> The interaction with the virtual memory subsystem is ... hmmm ... suboptimal

Your info noted, Thank you. 

> LP> Thank's again, Laurie

> CU, Ricsi

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