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- From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
- Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows... again...
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- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 15:59:13 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- References: <CMM.0.90.2.715255575.terjeh@maud.ifi.uio.no> <timvih.1.715323487@polaris.utu.fi>
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- In article <timvih.1.715323487@polaris.utu.fi> timvih@polaris.utu.fi (Timo Vihersaari) writes:
- >makes win to slow down. And if you have enough memory, you may use a ram
- >disk and load some parts of windows there.
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- Almost true. What you should do is set the TEMP environment variable (and
- tmp, for some other programs) to a subdirectory on the RAM disk. The reason
- for this is some programs (COREL DRAW, Windows Print manager, etc.) create
- and play around with temporary files that slow down the system if written
- and read at 11-30 ms instead of read and written at 50-100 microsecs. And
- you use a subdirectory on the disk because the root directory on any disk
- is only capable of holding a small number of files compared to subs.
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- If you run superstore, stacker, et al. then use that program on RAM disk
- to make more room or to use a smaller disk for the same capacity.
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