TWEAK WINDOWS 98 FOR SPEED. Review on Improving Your Computer's Performance

I RECENTLY CAME ACROSS A REVIEW IN CHIP MAGAZINE REGARDING SPEEDING UP WINDOWS 98. I TRIED IT AND FOUND IT REALLY HELPFUL.

1. RIGHT-CLICK MY COMPUTER ICON CLICK PROPERTIES, GO TO PERFORMANCE AND CHOOSE FILE SYSTEM TAB.

CHANGE THE COMPUTER'S ROLE FROM A TYPICAL'DESKTOP                COMPUTER' TO'NETWORK SERVER'.

1. OPTIMIZE YOUR VIRTUAL MEMORY BY RIGHT CLICKING

MY COMPUTER ICON ANDSELECT PROPERTIES.CLICK PERFORMANCE AND CLICK VIRTUAL MEMORY BUTTON AND SELECT'LET ME SPECIFY MY OWN VIRTUAL MEMORY SETTINGS. A 150 MB PERMANENT SWAP FILE(BOTH MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM SET TO SAME AMOUNT)WILL KEEP MOST SYSTEMS HAPPY.

1. CLICK START, CLICK RUN AND TYPE SYSEDIT.SELECT SYSTEM.INI FILE.FIND [VCACHE] HEADER AND INSERT THE THREE LINE GIVEN BELOW.

ChunkSize=512

MinFileCache=8192

MaxFileCache=8192

FOR USERS WITH 32 MB RAM USE FILECACHE SETTING THAT IS SLIGHTLY LOWER(4096).

FOR USERS WITH 128 MB RAM USE FILECACHE

SETTING(12288).

1. ENABLE DMA OPTION FOR BOTH HARDDISK AND CD-ROM DRIVE. FOR THIS SELECT MY COMPUTER ICON AND RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT PROPERTIES.CLICK ON DEVICE MANAGER TAB AND SELECT DISK DRIVES. DOUBLE CLICK ON THE NAME OF HARD DRIVE AND CLICK SETTINGS TAB. AND CHECK THE DMA OPTION.

USING THE ABOVE TWEAKS CAN IMPROVE YOUR SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE  VERY MUCH.