At 09:13 AM 03/09/2000 , Bobby Sutton wrote:
>Thanks for the tips on my 95 Gateway, one more question, the system of
>course came with win 95, I upgraded to win 98 with upgrade disk, no
>problems but somehow a little birdie keeps telling me to go back to 95,
>I know it is a less bulky system than 98 but I "think" it runs faster on
>95, Is this my mind playing tricks or with all the upgraded is the 95a
>better than early 98 editrion with all the upgrades, for my system, with
>80 megs ram.
>  I beleieve I will follow the advice and keep it asw is a nd let me
>daughter take it too school next year, when I get a new system I will
>get a 15" monitor to accomodate dorm room, keep my 17" Gateway EV700
>Monitor(a newer edition replaced under warranty in my third year of
>warrany, along with a new video card & board, both originals I guess).
>Then buy me a Intel system, too may new changes & improvements to
>upgrade this old workhorse, one thing though, this thing is bulletproof


I have seen this situation in upgrading an existing system using Windows95
to Windows98.  One quick fix that often will speed up Windows98 is to
set the Virtual Cache on the machine.  Do this:

Click on Start | Run  and type:   SYSEDIT  [press enter]
Find the window for System.ini
Now find the header for VCACHE  it looks like this:   [VCACHE]
Under this header add these two lines, so it looks like this:

  [VCACHE]
MinFileCache=1024
MaxFileCache=8192

Save the changes to your SYSTEM.INI and reboot Windows98.  You
should see a noticeable difference.

The other thing that will help is to disable "View Desktop as a web page."
Click on Start | Settings | Active Destop    and uncheck the item for
"View Desktop as a Web Page."   This option is a resource eater and although
it is fun to be able to only single click on desktop icons and see animated
desktop backgrounds...  it really eats system resources.

      Bob Wright
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