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How much ram do you have? First and best tip is cram your box full of ram.
Change everything listed below at your own risk. ( I have to say that )
Second tip is create a permanent swap file. my
computer/properties/performance/virtual memory Make sure you put it on your
fastest harddrive. check let me specify my own virtual memory settings,
then make the minfilesize and maxfilesize the same number. If you have a big
drive make it at least 100 mb Dont make it really huge, or youre just
wasting space.
Third tip is to make sure that you dont have alot of silly utilities loading
at boot time. Get findfast out of there for sure. That thing indexes your
drive constantly. Loose anything that is not necessary for whatever you are
doing 99% of the time.Clear out your start up folder and the run and load
lines of win.ini and these areas of the registry.
My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
If you arent familiar with editing the registry, you might not want to mess
with this. But if you have things running and you dont know why they are
loading this is where to find them. Of course if you dont know what it is
and you arent sure you dont need it, then leave it in there. But most
computers come from the store with tons of useless programs that load at
startup. Get em outa there.
There are other things you can do,
take any tsr stuff that isnt totally essential out of your config.sys and
autoexec.bat. The only thing you "really" need is your cd rom driver and the
ssiact line and files and buffers lines, only if you are running
tradestation4 or supercharts. Always make a backup whenever you change
these files.
Add this line to your system.ini file under the 386enh section same caveat,
make a backup.
LocalLoadHigh=1
Set the role of the machine to network server in my
computer/properties/performance/filesystem requires reboot
Turn off virus scanners. Turn them on when you download something.
Turn off screen savers.
Get rid of wallpaper.
Turn off sounds. All of them. You want a fast box right?
If you thought that compressing your drives would give you more storage
space, you are sacrificing speed and resources to do it. Get a 10 gig drive
for $179 and uncompress those drives.
Get rid of extra fonts you dont use, just move them to another folder and
windows wont load them at startup. If you are doing some fancy graphics
session then load them in then, Otherwise go lean in the fonts folder. Just
dont remove any system fonts. Elephantine Gorgonzola Bold Italic is not a
system font.
Get rid of all those extra icons and folders in your start menu, Lean and
mean in the start menu. Windows allocates resources for every one of those
icons in there. You dont need an icon to the help file of every program. or
the read me, or the uninstaller, or the website etc.
Sorry everyone, but get rid of Netscape. IE is faster and is intimately
connected to your OS. Netscape is bloatware. I have no affiliation with
Microsoft, Ie version 4 or higher works better.
Get a graphics accelerator card. windows wont have to run graphics and do
processing at the same time. Get all the video ram upgrades you can for the
card you have.
Dumb stuff, get the latest versions of the progs you use. Except 2000i of
course.
You can do a warm boot if you hold down the shift key when you are at the
restart windows dialogue box and pressing ok. this will just restart
windows, not take you through the whole boot process.
I cant think of any more right off the top of my head. Those things should
help alot. Please dont flame me about Netscape. If you dont like IE, then
get Opera, or something else small. Computing is about compromise.
David Elden
-----Original Message-----
From: Glen Wallace [mailto:gcwallace@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 10:34 AM
To: Omega Listserver
Subject: Re: Davids tip - Re: reclaiming memory
How about utilities or tips to reclaim Win98 User Resources and GDI
Resources? I can barely make it through the day without rebooting if I have
several applications to open and close. I tried MemTurbo, but it is just
not designed to reclaim resources.
----- Original Message -----
From: David Elden <eldenworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: October 6, 1999 10:14
Subject: RE: Davids tip - Re: reclaiming memory
> I got this off a Tweak site, and as far as I remember what it does is put
a
> big space into memory. So windows has to move out anything that is not
being
> used by other programs to accomodate it.
>
> What you can do to test it is run System Monitor and just do a before and
> after. Run a pile of memory hogs, netscape, tradestation, etc. then hit
the
> memory.vbs. You will see your memory go down to zero and then clear. Free
> Mem does the exact same thing, but in a slightly different way. I dont
know
> how Rambooster does it's thing but I think it is pretty similar, just a
> different interface on the same concept.
>
> If I am totally wrong about this and someone knows the " real " answer,
> please feel free to spill the beans.
>
> d
>
>
>
> Hi David
> Thanks for the tip.
> Can you explain what happens when we do what you suugests.
> It helps to know
>
> Thanks
> Mike
> > Open notepad,
> > Paste in this line:
> > Mystring = Space(16000000)
> > Save as whatever you want, with the extension .vbs
> > On my system it is memory.vbs
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