Diane sent this to me as an individual message, but it looks like she meant
it for the list.
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From: Diane Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 14:03:19 -0700
To: Jeff Porten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Entourage is DOG slow is OS X classic mode; any fixes?
On 8/4/01 1:33 PM, "Jeff Porten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Any suggestions?
Jeff,
First, I recommend installing a Classic only system. Don't install 9.1
taking the defaults. Choose a custom installation and remove all the extras
(text to speech, IE/Outlook, etc) basically only installing "Base" and the
default networking. You may also want Quicktime and the standard fonts.
Beyond that you don' t need the rest of OS9 to run apps under OSX, as OS X
does much of the work for OS 9.
Then do the following. Note they are not organized or edited.
1. booted from Classic's system 9.1 folder (I have it alone on its own
partition).
2. went into control panels and toggled Appletalk OFF.
3. Went into apple menu options and toggled OFF hierarchical menus, as
well as turning OFF remembering any recent documents, apps, or servers.
4. Went into extension manager and duplicated the 9.1 all set, and only
added ATM 4.6.1.
5. restarted, and REMOVED the entries of all fonts from known font
sets...re-added them back in.
6. Booted from OSX and rebuilt the classic desktop from within OSX system
prefs/classic controls.
7. Ran xoptimize to prebind while classic was up. (Jeff, note sure what
this is)
8. Booted from OSX CD and ran disk utility to repair both my OSX
partition (now on an HFS+ partition due to good advice I found elsewhere)
and my classic partition.
Sharing Preferences: turn file sharing and web sharing off.
Display Preferences: set Colors to Thousands instead of Millions.
Dock Preferences: turn off magnification and animate opening applications.
Disable hiding.
Dock: get Tinker Tool and disable genie effects.
Finder: View Options: Global Tab: View Global List: be sure Calculate Folder
Sizes is unchecked.
Login Preferences: Login Window tab: check automatically log in to speed
start up (if you can get away with this).
XOptimizer: download and run on occasion, especially after installing
applications that don't optimize.
Classic Preferences: Advanced Tab: set Classic to never sleep and X will
wake up more quickly.
Applications: once open, leave it open if you have enough RAM.
Speech Preferences: Turn Speakable Items off.
1) Force yourself to use and learn the Command Key equivalents for menu
items. Slow menus on my 300 Mhz iBook have made this a neccessity - and it's
a good habit anyway.
2) Try ASM or Drop Drawers for app switching. If you're like me you'll find
a labeled list of apps easier and quicker to use.
3) Drag your most-used folders or apps to the Finder toolbar
1. While booted under OSX, in system prefs/classic/advanced, rebuild the
Classic desktop if you havent already.
2. boot the classic system folder, and under apple menu options control
panel, turn OFF "remember recent items, folder, apps"
3. Turn OFF virtual memory under classic.
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Log Files: download MacJanitor and run it for daily, weekly, and monthly
clean-up of log files.
If you leave OS X running most of the time, the MacJanitor routine is
redundant, even moot and possibly unnecessarily repetitive, but I repeat
myself...
The OS X's /etc/crontab file already schedules daily, weekly and monthly
maintenance tasks. The default schedule runs the script /etc/daily every day
at 03:15; /etc/weekly on Saturday at 04:30, and /etc/monthly runs at 05:30
on the first day of each month. They run automatically if OS X is running.
MacJanitor simply provides a simple way for a user to invoke these scripts
manually. The only time you would need to do this is if you don't leave OS X
running overnight.
In reply to:
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3. Turn OFF virtual memory under classic.
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Sparky, I tried to do this in Classic, but I have no option to do that in
the Memory Control Panel. You must mean to do it after rebooting in OS 9.1?
Your tips definitely helped to speed up Classic. I would add turning off
Appletalk if possible, and deleting the aliases in the Apple Menu Recent
Servers folder. This helps to speed up Classic launch -- now less than 50
sec. for me, while the same OS 9.1 System boots in 2 min. 25 sec.
doh! sorry, my bad, I didnt explain to do all that stuff WHILE booted under
the 9.1 classic volume or folder, rather than trying to do them while booted
under OSX.
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Turn off AppleTalk
To speed Finder menu scrolling in the Classic Environment, make certain that
you turn OFF "Platinum Sounds" in the Classic's Appearance control panel.
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