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 -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
