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- From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.150719.5959@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 15:07:19 GMT
- References: <CMM.0.90.2.714995016.terjeh@maud.ifi.uio.no> <1992Aug28.222436.7248@wam.umd.edu> <Sep.2.08.09.51.1992.3949@ratt.rutgers.edu> <1992Sep3.040823.9415@wam.umd.edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 41
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- In <1992Sep3.040823.9415@wam.umd.edu> macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole) writes:
-
- >Nope...Stacker compresses (or tries to) everything...whatever is on the stacker
- >drive will have too be decompressed first...hence, any disk i/o operations will
- >take a tad bit longer. Of course, if you have files that are loaded in all at
- >once..then you can save space by keeping them on the stacker drive. I keep all
- >of my windows apps on the stacker drive...except for windows itself and Norton
- >Desktop.
-
- I found that my Windows works just as fast from a Stacked drive than
- from a normal one. I even tested it with a stopwatch - and at least my
- reflexes couldn't tell a difference.
-
- >>What is wrong with HIMEM.SYS?
-
- >Nothing...I just hate using MS supplied utils...it's liking using Paintbrush or
- >Write instead of using PhotoStyler or MS Word. I got hold of QEMM and I like
- >it very much...of course, only after months of taming it.
-
- I use QEMM occasionally, too, but I really prefer the shareware
- UMB_DRVR. It doesn't slow anything down (actually, it seems to *speed*
- things up!), and even though it requires HIMEM.SYS, it lets me to load
- it high (!). 626K free RAM down here, 160K of UMB's. (With QEMM's
- Stealth I get my Video ROM 32K as UMB too, but who cares? I seem to
- manage with mere 160K.) Windows' TrueType font handling is noticeably
- faster with UMB_DRVR than with QEMM.
-
- >Once again...your caching has to be decompressed and recompressed before any
- >action is taken. If you're running a 486-50 there probably wouldn't be any
- >problems...but for me and my 386-25...I would rather keep any disk i/o
- >intensive action away from Stacker.
-
- IMO, you're being a little paranoid. I have a 386SX-25 32C (proven to
- be faster than a DX-25, BTW..!), and Stacker performs like it wasn't
- there. With 1.8 average compression, I, for one, do not have any fears
- about Stacker degrading my (er, the computer's :) performance.
-
- --
- Juha Liukkonen, aka jliukkon@cc.helsinki.fi
- University of Helsinki, Dept. of Paranormal Investigations
- "Trust me, I know what I'm doing." - Sledge Hammer
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