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Old October 25th 04, 06:39 AM
Noel Paton
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OK - (I have no ability to have posts removed - and the duplicate will have
propagated all over the Internet by now anyhow, so there's no point in
removing it from just the single server farm)

Now delete the contents of the [vcache] section, like I said earlier - which
will speed things up immensely (DON'T delete the section header, though)

You also need to delete the two lines MinPhysPage, and MaxPhysPage from the
[386Enh] section

You seem to have your swapfile redirected to a second partition - is this
correct? How much space is there on the D: drive?

There are a lot of other superfluous entries in the [386Enh] section - have
you been using some kind of 'optimiser' software?? which one? Ah - looks
like it may have been Tweak3D??)

I'd be inclined to REM out the following lines
LocalLoadHigh=1
MinTimeSlice=40
DMABufferSize=64
WindowUpdateTime=200
PageBuffers=32
KeyBoostTime=0.1

There's a couple there that I've never heard of before.
AFAIK, LocalLoadHigh should only be considered for Win3.1!!! (and certainly
only if you're desperate for an extra 4K of DOS low memory in a DOS
window!).
WindowUpdateTime is actively slowing your screen refresh rate down to once
every 200ms (5FPS!!!).
PageBuffers limits your HD caching - unnecessarily
KeyBoostTime looks as if it's actually slowing down your keyboard sensor
rate (the 'recommended' value at one site I looked at is 0.005)
DMABufferSize limits the RAM available for DMA-capable devices -
unnecessarily



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"Angus_01" wrote in message
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Apologize for any read-between-the lines remarks.
Assumed all avid users of WindowsME like myself at this newsgroup.

Cable ISP will be here tommorrow; had to turn off all the background
services I can to post this. Getting up to 94% packet drop rate instead of
15%.

'Ulimate Boot Disk' (UBD) only allows "under 128MB RAM" installations as
downloaded.
Will follow through to www.startdisk.com with request for update.

[Vcache]
ChunkSize=512
MinFileCache=8192
MaxFileCache=8192

[386enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=app850.fon
mouse=*vmouse
device=*vpd
device=*int13
display=*vdd,*vflatd
PagingDrive=D:
MinPagingFileSize=1835008
MaxPagingFileSize=1835008
keyboard=*vkd
LocalLoadHigh=1
MinSPs=8
MinTimeSlice=40
DMABufferSize=64
WindowUpdateTime=200
PageBuffers=32
KeyBoostTime=0.1


P.S. Can you arrange for deletion of duplicate question ?
My station read it did not receive item for posting.


"Noel Paton" wrote:

Please don't snip like that! - I never said that at all!
please repost with your results - and also with contents of the [386Enh]
section of the SYSTEM.INI, and the new [vcache] section



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