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re: uninstalling win ME - upgrade to XP Home
Thursday, February 17, 2005 at 9:20 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by alyssa
(6 messages posted)
Jack, I did all the clean up I could stand then I booted from a disk and did the
delindex.bat. That freed up 700 mB of space. Then I ran scandisk and defragged.
The only thing I am not sure how to do now is to rename a file when I boot up with
a disk into minimal boot and rename it from there.
The system is much, much faster now, thanks so much!!
alyssa
On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 10:14 pm, Jack Gulley wrote:
>Good. Sounds like you had a lot of junk files slowing down your system. They
build
>up fast with DSL connections.
> When you have done all of the cleanup you can stand. Run the DELINDEX.BAT clean
>up again, then do the Disable/Enable of System Restore in normal mode to clear out
>its files one last time, and then boot into Safe Mode and run ScanDisk (normal mode)
>and then DEFRAG.
> Another trick not covered in the Fixes page, is boot with a startup diskette
and
>locate the Win386.SWP file. Rename it to Win386.sav and then boot into Safe Mode
>and run DEFRAG. When that is done, boot with the diskette again and delete the new
>WIN386.SWP and then rename the old win386.sav back to Win386.SWP. This allows the
>windows swap file to be defragged some which helps on smaller memory systems. Of
>course "MAC" will jump in and provided you with links to defrag programs that will
>do a better job of this for you.
> Humm... DSL. Have you ever been to DSLreports.com
> and ran their Tweaks test. Then used their DrTCP program to adjust the TCP/IP
>setting for RWIN to the larger recommended setting for your connection setup. Results
>in better DSL download speeds, as the Windows ME default value for RWIN is set too
>low.
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