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Window ME Tweaks
On 10/16/2004 2:47 PM PST Noel Paton wrote in a reply to 'slow performance':
WRT your query about 512MB - ME requires a tweak in the System.ini file add the following line in the [vcache] section MaxFileCache=512000 There should NOT be anything else in that section, unless you have more than 1GB installed -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) -- Question is on my Celeron 733Mhz 512MB machine with 'Ultimate Boot Disk' Tweaks there is more than just one line as follows: [vcache] Chunksize=512 MinFileCache=8192 MaxFileCache=8192 I am also experiencing 'slow performance' using Netscape 7.2 Browser Javascript page changes. Angus01 |
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Hey John! Long time no hear...
"Angus_01" wrote in message news On 10/16/2004 2:47 PM PST Noel Paton wrote in a reply to 'slow performance': WRT your query about 512MB - ME requires a tweak in the System.ini file add the following line in the [vcache] section MaxFileCache=512000 There should NOT be anything else in that section, unless you have more than 1GB installed -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) -- Question is on my Celeron 733Mhz 512MB machine with 'Ultimate Boot Disk' Tweaks there is more than just one line as follows: [vcache] Chunksize=512 MinFileCache=8192 MaxFileCache=8192 I am also experiencing 'slow performance' using Netscape 7.2 Browser Javascript page changes. Angus01 |
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"Angus_01" wrote in message news On 10/16/2004 2:47 PM PST Noel Paton wrote in a reply to 'slow performance': WRT your query about 512MB - ME requires a tweak in the System.ini file add the following line in the [vcache] section MaxFileCache=512000 There should NOT be anything else in that section, unless you have more than 1GB installed -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) -- Question is on my Celeron 733Mhz 512MB machine with 'Ultimate Boot Disk' Tweaks there is more than just one line as follows: [vcache] Chunksize=512 MinFileCache=8192 MaxFileCache=8192 I am also experiencing 'slow performance' using Netscape 7.2 Browser Javascript page changes. Angus01 You only need to add the line to [vcache] that Noel refers to if you have more than 512MB of RAM installed. |
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Angus
with the settings you have for [vcache] I'm surprised your system boots at all!! remove all three lines - and see what a difference it makes -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Angus_01" wrote in message news On 10/16/2004 2:47 PM PST Noel Paton wrote in a reply to 'slow performance': WRT your query about 512MB - ME requires a tweak in the System.ini file add the following line in the [vcache] section MaxFileCache=512000 There should NOT be anything else in that section, unless you have more than 1GB installed -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) -- Question is on my Celeron 733Mhz 512MB machine with 'Ultimate Boot Disk' Tweaks there is more than just one line as follows: [vcache] Chunksize=512 MinFileCache=8192 MaxFileCache=8192 I am also experiencing 'slow performance' using Netscape 7.2 Browser Javascript page changes. Angus01 |
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It only works a little !!
"Angus_01" wrote: On 10/16/2004 2:47 PM PST Noel Paton wrote in a reply to 'slow performance': Chunksize=512 MinFileCache=8192 MaxFileCache=8192 I am also experiencing 'slow performance' using Netscape 7.2 Browser Javascript page changes. Angus01 |
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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 -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "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 -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Angus_01" wrote in message ... |
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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 -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Angus_01" wrote in message ... 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 -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Angus_01" wrote in message ... |
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Re-booted with edits done.
Thanks for your well worded response on how things work. ShawCable ISP has fixed things for internet packet losses. SwapFile is fixed size on logical partition D: with TEMP, Temporary Internet Files, Netscape Cache, JAVAcache, Real (player). Partition is too small at 2.GB located adjacent to boot drive C: After re-installing WinME, only optimizer was UBD Tweaks 2.6 which as I mentioned before installs for "128KB and under" rather than 512KB RAM. Shouldn't excerpts be posted to Windows general ? MSconfig has been reset to normal, but Netscape 7.2 now still cannot keep up with this newsgroups section loading. After EnglishUnited States must re-load page manually. Same thing on sub-section WindowsWindows9X. All JAVA has been removed and re-installed. QuickTime plug-in removed as it slows everything down. P.S. Always thought that my keyboard problems were related to HP drivers. Still have a hardware device failure which I will post separately if HP business forum fails to satisfy me next week. Angus_0l "Noel Paton" wrote: OK - Deletions by Angus_0l 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 -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) |
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Hmm - not sure about fixed-size swapfiles - I don't like 'em much unless
they're fixed at 2GB. How big is drive C:? There's really not a lot of point in locating the swapfile on a second partition of the primary HD - it may actually slow the system down in certain circumstances, as the head has further to travel This has me confused! After EnglishUnited States must re-load page manually Same thing on sub-section WindowsWindows9X ?? The MS website is optimised for IE - and until recently a lot of it refused to load in Netscape at all, so it's more likely a problem with the MS coding than your Netscapeg -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Angus_01" wrote in message ... Re-booted with edits done. Thanks for your well worded response on how things work. ShawCable ISP has fixed things for internet packet losses. SwapFile is fixed size on logical partition D: with TEMP, Temporary Internet Files, Netscape Cache, JAVAcache, Real (player). Partition is too small at 2.GB located adjacent to boot drive C: After re-installing WinME, only optimizer was UBD Tweaks 2.6 which as I mentioned before installs for "128KB and under" rather than 512KB RAM. Shouldn't excerpts be posted to Windows general ? MSconfig has been reset to normal, but Netscape 7.2 now still cannot keep up with this newsgroups section loading. After EnglishUnited States must re-load page manually. Same thing on sub-section WindowsWindows9X. All JAVA has been removed and re-installed. QuickTime plug-in removed as it slows everything down. P.S. Always thought that my keyboard problems were related to HP drivers. Still have a hardware device failure which I will post separately if HP business forum fails to satisfy me next week. Angus_0l "Noel Paton" wrote: OK - Deletions by Angus_0l 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 -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) |
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