Subject: How to configure OS/2 2.0 for use with ADW
The following details how to setup the CONFIG.SYS file for OS/2 2.0 for optimum performance. This information has been gathered from CompuServe and my personal experience as a beta tester for OS/2 2.0 at my previous employer. I hope it is helpful to you.
A) The OS/2 installation program will automatically install HPFS support if your PC has 8 megabytes or more of RAM. If you have not formatted any of your drives as HPFS you can comment out the line which installs HPFS support and save approximately 512K of RAM. The line looks something like this:
B) By default OS/2 2.0 will automatically restart any programs that were running at the time you did an abnormal shutdown (i.e. Ctrl+Alt+Del or BigRedSwitch). To stop OS/2 2.0 from doing this, insert the following command into CONFIG.SYS:
SET RESTARTOBJECTS=STARTUPFOLDERSONLY
C) To make your directory listings a little easier to read through, insert the following command in CONFIG.SYS. This command will list your directory entries first followed by the file names sorted
in alphabetical order.
SET DIRCMD=/O:GN
D) The FILES parameter is used only for DOS programs. Set it to a default of 30. This parameter can be changed for each individual DOS program by changing the FILES parameter is the session settings.
E) The BUFFERS parameter should be set to 3. Under OS/2 2.0 the HPFS or FAT disk caches do a better job of caching sequential reads than the BUFFERS statement.
F) The MAXWAIT parameter should be set to 1. This gives OS/2 a smoother feel when switching to different windows. When this is set to 3 you may notice some "jerkiness" when switching between applications.
G) The THREADS parameter should be set to 256.
H) If you are only using HPFS formatted drives, remove the DISKCACHE statement. HPFS does not use it.