Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:46:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christian Kuiphoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win98 vs Win95 on an L50
Hi Eiren,
You should turn off Active Desktop. Install Tweakui
from the Tools\Powertoy directory off of the the 98
CD. After you install it, go to the IE tab and
uncheck "Active Desktop" if it's checked. If you
installed 98 over 95, make sure you defrag the drive
too.
Chris
--- "Eiren K. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:39:47 -0400
> From: "Eiren K. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Win98 vs Win95 on an L50
>
> I have an admittedly nebulous problem.
>
> My L50 has 32MB of RAM, is overclocked to 100MHz,
> and has a new 6GB Toshiba drive. I used to run Win95
> on it with DriveSpace compression on my 810MB
> original drive.
>
> When I upgraded my hard drive, I decided to move to
> Win98 (with a FAT32). The machine now feels
> significantly slower than ever. I expected Win98 to
> run slower than Win95, but it is so much slower that
> I wonder if there's something else wrong. The
> machine actually feels slower than it did with
> Win95's DriveSpace running heavily all the time
> (resulting in major disk access).
>
> At first, I handled a driver problem with the
> Libretto floppy drive. That handled a HUGE slow
> waiting for it to sense the floppy drive (which
> would inevitably fail anyway). However, it still
> doesn't feel "right". Now, many times I'll press a
> button in a dialog box and I'll have to wait for
> sometimes more than ten seconds to even see the
> button be pressed. During this wait, the hard drive
> is seldom, if ever, being accessed. It's not like
> with Win95 and my old 810MB hard drive (with or
> without DriveSpace), where the disk would be
> accessed furiously if the machine was making me
> wait.
>
> I'm hoping someone else has run into this and that
> there a there's a solution. I could, of course, go
> back to Win95 with this new hard drive to see if
> it's a perculiar problem with the new hard drive,
> but I'd rather not have to do this.
>
> Anyone have any experience?
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