Hi,
my own mother still uses a 486 DX50 w/8MB RAM & a 310MB HDD!!
And has Win95a installed and working on the internet. And yes it takes
a couple of minutes for the first web page to be loaded. But that's
nothing compared to how slow it was... I'll get back to this.

Simply put Win95 is a much larger operating system and requires more
RAM than Win 3.1 just to load. When you do not have enough RAM it falls
back on the hard drive in the form of Virtual Memory which is much
slower. Internet Explorer is the largest program in Win95, so while
you're waiting for it to come up you've probally noticed the heavy hard
drive activity. This is kind of a generic answer to your problem... you
need more RAM.

Now getting back to my original point. My mother's system was much
slower because of DOS drivers that were loaded robbing the system of
critical conventional memory. Any chance you have a similar situation?
Perhaps you have DOS drivers loaded for your CD ROM or sound card?
Win95 will load its own drivers for the CD ROM, but if you have DOS
drivers loaded you could default the controller to 16bit access only. A
easy way to find out if you're not sure is type this at the Win95 DOS
prompt:
   mem /c/p
this will list all TSR's currently loaded. Be sure to do this w/o
leaving Win95 to get a accurate picture. And if you do have DOS drivers
loaded... just disable them temporarily to see if it helps. Otherwise
Windows 9x is not dependent on Autoexec.bat or Config.sys the way DOS
is.

hopefully something here will help
-yui


--- val jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have been used to run in DOS mode and win 3.1 but now I have a
> problem
> with my speed on EI and just about everything on my computer while in
> win95, I ran a diag and it said  wait staits may be wrong too low but
> in
> dos its great and real fast with 1 sim in the slot but gets slower
> when I
> add more, I run at 16 megs of memory now and about 100mhz cpu and I
> was
> wondering why it slows down in internernet explorer so much and why
> it
> take along time to load a page.
> thanks
> [log in to unmask]

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