Windows Tweaking

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Here are some cool tweaking tips:

Make Your Win98 Computer a "Powerful PC!

As you Win98 users know, you can set the "Typical Role of your PC" in the Control Panels System . The usual tweak is to set it to "Network Server" for increased file-system performance. However you can add one more choice: "Powerful PC" which will give your file-system an even further boost. "Powerful PC" sets VFAT (the Virtual File Allocation Table in RAM) so that it will remember about twice as many files and folders as the "Network Server" setting.
Back up you Registry and Close all your running programs.
Highlight the text below and press Ctrl+C to copy it.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates\Powerful]
@="Powerful PC"
"NameCache"=hex:a0,0f,00,00
"PathCache"=hex:80,00,00,00


Launch Notepad and paste it into a new file called powerpc.reg. Make sure everything on the line that starts with "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE....\Powerful]" is on one line.
Also make sure that there is one carriage return(enter) after the last character in the text you paste.
Close your text editor and locate your new REG file. Right click the file and select Merge from the context menu.
Reboot and then go to the Control Panel. Click System , click the Performance tab and then click the File System... button.
Note the small window with the drop down menu. By default it will be set as Desktop Computer. As stated above, normally you will have two other options: Mobile or docking system and Network server.

You should now have a third alternative to the default called Powerful PC. If you check this option you may see a significant performance increase under certain circumstances.
If you don't like the results simply change back to Desktop computer or whatever your previous setting was.
Each time you make a change you'll be prompted to reboot. Do so.

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Dude111

This looks interesting but i only have 56Megs of ram (64 but 8 is used by my monitor)


I can go in and manally add these keys but ISNT THIS QUITE RAM INTENSIVE??


I did have it set to NETWORK SERVER for awhile and that used more ram if i remember right (I finally put it back to Desktop)

Gonzovision

Dude111 wrote: »

This looks interesting but i only have 56Megs of ram (64 but 8 is used by my monitor)


I can go in and manally add these keys but ISNT THIS QUITE RAM INTENSIVE??


I did have it set to NETWORK SERVER for awhile and that used more ram if i remember right (I finally put it back to Desktop)

9 years :eek:

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gonzovision wrote: »

9 years :eek:

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