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- From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Two beginner's questions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.135141.11288@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 13:51:41 GMT
- References: <1icf97INNf7i@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
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- Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
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- In <1icf97INNf7i@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> gunnelj@curie.CS.ORST.EDU (John A. Gunnels) writes:
- >1. Is there supposed to be ANYTHING in system.ini? Mine contains
- > absolutely nothing. If it wouldn't be too much trouble (and if
- > system.ini is NOT supposed to be empty) could someone send me
- > a copy of theirs?
-
- The SYSTEM.INI is only there for compatibility with Windows 3.x apps, that
- use this file. The same is with WIN.INI. In Windows/NT everything is stored
- in the "Registry". If you want to look at it, start REGEDIT.EXE. But don't
- change anything, if you are not familiar with the registry (or have the CD
- ready for reinstalling from scratch).
-
- In the registry, there is also a section called INI-File Mapping, which
- causes that Windows 3.x apps, that issue WriteProfileString or
- WritePrivateProfileString to write the data in the registry. You can
- choose between storing on a per user basis or per machine basis. This
- causes, that Win 3.x apps store certain things on per user basis.
-
- >2. The S3 drivers seem to work very nicely with my Stealth card
- > but moving stuff around does not seem to happen as fast as
- > under Windows. Why is that?
-
- Windows NT is not optimzed for speed yet and there is a lot of debug code
- in it, especially in Video Device Drivers. So don't expect everything to
- be quite fast now.
-
- Christoph
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