re: For those running 95 and 98: Keep these files
Friday, May 6, 2005 at 6:19 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DethBlade
(1 messages posted)
In all my time running Windows 98, I've spent many an hour researching ways to tweak
and improve the performance of said OS. This has got to be the best and simplest
tweak I've ever tried on my system. After adding those values to my autoexec.bat
and config.sys files and rebooting, I've noticed a drastic decrease in boot time
as well as program load times and my PC seems to run a bit smoother. I already knew
DOS was an important part of Win9x, but I never realized it had THAT much impact.
Anyways, I decided to fire off a message to give you props for that great tip and
let folks know it's worth their time to try that out. Peace.
On Thursday, May 8, 2003 at 12:07 pm, Phoenix wrote:
>I have a question about Do
>I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?:
>
>Keep these files around, and put something similar into them. Windows 95 and 98
>still rely on DOS to do a lot of things, and tuning these files appropriately can
>actually improve stability and performance in Windows applications.
>
>config.sys:
>device=c:\windows\himem.sys /testmem:off
>device=c:\windows\emm386.exe noems
>
>dos=high,umb
>fileshigh=40
>buffershigh=40
>stackshigh=9,256
>fcbshigh=16,8
>lastdrivehigh=z
>
>devicehigh=c:\windows\ifshlp.sys
>devicehigh=c:\windows\setver.exe
>
>autoexec.bat:
>@echo off
>set path=c:\windows\command;c:\windows;c:\
>set dircmd=/o:ge /p
>set temp=c:\windows\temp
>set tmp=c:\windows\temp
>
>loadhigh c:\windows\command\doskey.com /insert
>
>What do these settings do?? These are based on the defaults that windows uses,
but
>puts everything into High Memory, giving you more Conventional Memory, better stability,
>and greater performance where Windows is concerned. Remember, Windows 95, 98, and
>ME are nothing more than graphical shells for DOS 7.x.
>
>To test the difference this makes, open a DOS prompt and type: mem /c
>Write down the numbers listed under the FREE column in the memory summary. Make
>the changes above and reboot.
>
>Type: mem /c again and compare the values. More FREE memory means better performance
>from Windows 95 and 98.
>
>This is not needed on NT-based Windows (NT, 2000, XP) as they are not based on DOS.
>
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