[ppug] Re: speed

If you set your swap file  I think you set it to 1.5 times  of the size off 
your drive

charlie



At 05:07 PM 12/02/04 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi Mal,
>
>do you know how big your swap file is, and is it set for Windows to manage it?
>
>the first thing I do with EVERY computer I get is to tell windows not to 
>manage the swap file, I set it to a minimum size at least equal to the 
>amount of physical RAM I have ( and often even larger than that ), then 
>use Nortons Speed Disk to move the swap file to the front of the disk... 
>The windoze defragger is crap, and won't let you move the swap file...
>
>Optimising the hard drive is more than just defragging as well... I move 
>the folders to the front of the disk, and make sure that the files that I 
>use often are at the front of the disk as well....   Some older defraggers 
>(and Nortons had an option for this as well), will simply defrag the 
>files, leaving them all over the hard drive... I always do a full 
>optimisation on a drive, moving frequently accessed files to the front, 
>frequently modified to the end, leaving a nice contiguous free space in 
>the middle of the drive....   The other thing is ensuring that there is 
>plenty of space available on the drive...  a minimum of 15% free.
>
>That's the disk taken care of... As others have noted, make sure you're 
>running nothing else when you run your system test... Close all the 
>windows, and check the system tray down near the clock... Then go 
>Ctrl-Alt-Del and look at what "hidden" processes are running.... I recall 
>with Win98 there would be heaps of them... most of them you don't need... 
>So blast them..... This not only frees up memory but ensures that Windoze 
>doesn't task-switch to them during your system test....  There's some nice 
>utilities out there that will do this for you.. One I used to use was 
>called End-It-All.... I used to use it under 98 to clean out all the 
>non-required processes before burning a CD...
>
>Lastly, try the test immediately after rebooting... And try it twice in 
>succession... let me know if the second test is significantly faster than 
>the first?????
>
>Norsaint's 400Mhz Pentium II did the test in 12 minutes, so I guesstimate 
>that you should be able to get yours done quicker than that, and perhaps 
>as low as 10 minutes..............
>
>Cheers,
>Chris.

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