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- At 03:19 PM 4/9/96 -0700, Keith Lea wrote this:
- >A while back someone mentioned how to trun off Windows on Windows (WOW) and
- >regainig about 3M of RAM. I can't seem to find the message thread could
- >someone enlighten me as to how it can be done.
-
- Here's something from a message found in the way-back machine...
-
- "Thanks to Craig Kulesa for this info.
-
- You can save +4MB of Physical RAM at boot if you disable the WOWExec
- (16bit Windows Subsystem). Load Regedt32, go to the Local Machine Section,
- go to Software-Microsoft-WindowsNT-CurrentVersion-Winlogon. Find the line
- Userinit: delete the references to wowexec and win.com.
-
- On next login, when PM comes up, disk activity stops, and you now have 4MB
- more free RAM. If you use a 16bit app, the WOWexec will automatically
- load. To get rid of it in a system friendly way, get littles.zip from
- winftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/nt/. Use "ps" to find the program ID
- of WOWexec and "kill" to get rid of it. Works instantly and frees (at
- least most of) the 4MB again."
-
- --
- Daniel J. McCoy - djmccoy@pacificnet.net or dan@acti.com
- http//www.pacificnet.net/~djmccoy
- Stop the stupidity! Away be the demons of inDUHviduals!
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