From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun May 02 1999 - 19:49:58 EDT
As soon as you install SW, you need to use the LIVE UPDATE to download
all the fixes. This takes around 3.7 MB. AFter that, it automatically
does the update, after which the system will work perfectly!
Simon Bryquer wrote:
>
> Greetings one and all--
> I want to thank all who responded. The answers were exactly what I was
> looking for and I decided to only install Norton's Utility --already had
> NAV. Nothing will be resident.
>
> But I thought I'd point out that when optimizing the system, especially
> the Swap file ( I'm not talking of NU defragmenting the file - which is
> good) it increased it way beyond the Windows own recommendation of
> creating this file in Virtual Memory management under the guise of
> speeding up the system and file access. It moved the file to C:\ and
> added 60MG. Creating a 100MG swap file. There was no increase in
> performance and my systems with 40MG works well and is stable and fast.
> It did this by adding two line in the SYSTEM.INI under the 386enh
> section:
>
> ;MinPagingFileSize=81228
> ;PagingDrive=C:
>
> Which you will noticed I remarked out and tested the system. Everything
> worked fine.
>
> If you're going to look into this for yourselves please note that
> Windows will create a new Swap file in the Windows directory/folder.
> You then have to remove the other larger swap file from C:\. Once the
> instruction is no longer in SYS.INI by default W-95/98 will look for the
> file in the WINDOWS:\ folder.
>
> A special thanks to John560e who's always ready to helpwith solid
> information.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon Bryquer
>
> --
> Simon Bryquer -- Remove X before World when replying
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