>>Off or on doesn't make any difference,
>> they are still in your system folder taking up space!
>>
>>If you want to cut down the amount of Ram that your system uses,
>>you must *remove* the control panels and extensions from the system folder.
>
>Sorry, but this is completely false. The only files whose INIT code
>will run at boot time (potentially using up memory after boot time)
>are those in the Extensions folder, the Control Panels folder, the
>Fonts folder (which in a weird only-on-the-Mac-OS sense is a sort of
>extension of the System file), or at the root of the System Folder.
< big snip >
Thank you for this excellent explanation Marc
I stand corrected.
I'm just so used to doing this manually with my old compact Mac's
Running System 6.x & 7.1 that it never occured to me that it was any
different in the later OS versions.
Aloha, Ken
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