David Ball wrote:
>And I would be greatly interested in hearing about those optimizations.
>Right now my swap file is set to let Win95 manage my virtual memory
>settings. Should that be set differently to maximize performance?
The first thing I always do is to select to NOT use any swap in Windows.
That has improved spead on all my computers that I've run Windows on
(including a 486SX-25 with 4MB of RAM which only had 3MB or so left when
starting Windows 3.11 fwg)
IMO it looks like Windows uses the swap first and the main memmory as a
second memmory instead of the other way around. Never had any problem
running programs on that 486 either - including those that demanded 6 or 8 MB.
Removing all playing of wavs, backgrounds, (incorrect in my case) time
changing, screen savers and other useless things (del *.hlp) really can
make it go faster and it also reduces the diskspace needed.
My current setup on my 400MHz with 64MB RAM is on 6,85M B (I think I've
written this before but I'm not sure) for Windows 3.11 fwg and it can do
all the things I want. If you don't need printer support and multitasking
you can reduce it to some 100KBs. It's in fact just like when someone
suggests that you can run X-Window programs in Linux without a windowmanager.
I've however lost the link to the page were the details were explained does
anyone have it handy?
//Bernie
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