[pchelpers] Re: Hard drive Optimization
- From: "Ekhart GEORGI (last name last)" <ekhart.georgi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:12:45 +0300
Hi Scott
> EGlnl> I haven't done anything of the sort. Haven't had time. Read in one of
> EGlnl> the Dr. Gizmo texts i sent that one shouldn't fool around with the
> EGlnl> swapfile in XP because the days are over when that was necessary. Have
> EGlnl> heard other opinions on that though.
>
> I had to increase my swapfile size, since my system regularly handles
> huge files, and would occasionally tell me that it was increasing the
> swapfile size.
I'll have to do some reading about that. Can you recommend something? I
spent a lot of time on this back on 98 and 95 and found what is probably
the best online guide to this
www.adriansrojakpot.com/Speed_Demonz/Swapfile_Optimization/Swapfile_Optimization_01.htm
which you probably know about, but that doesn't seem to apply to XP at
least according to the short look i had time for now.
> EGlnl> Tried Bootvis but heard it no longer does anything except diagnose.
> It's
> EGlnl> boot speed up features are already automatic in XP.
>
> Take a look at http://www.autopatcher.com/autopatcherxp.html -- I ran
> it, and one of the options was BootVis. I don't know if it was BootVis
> or something else, but my system boots up noticeably faster now.
Thanks, looks great.
Ek
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