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- From: gcook@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Greg Cook|xxxxxx)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Re: Verrrrrry Slow Dos Prompt BOX
- Message-ID: <1iad9aINNo7v@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 22:21:30 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.093626.3320@pony.Ingres.COM>
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- From article <1993Jan4.093626.3320@pony.Ingres.COM>, by jonm@Ingres.COM (Don't Judge a book by your cover):
- > I have set up my dos prompt to be windows within the PIF setup.
- > I have 4M using a 486 33MHz. I have about 12M of swap space set up.
- >
- > Why why why why does the machine hang for abominably long periods when I try
- > to do average commands like copy/del etc. I have done the same on a little
- > compaq/386 and there was no problem?
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- While in PIF editor, advanced options, try setting your foreground priority
- to 1000. This allows the fullest priority to the DOS window while it's
- active but still allows WINDOWS to take care of business in the background.
-
- That should help to speed things up!
-
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