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To: wily who wrote (4032)	6/13/1999 9:59:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

Swap file stuff ... Sometimes, in Windows, I need to do the same thing TWICE before the changes stick. Once you make the changes, re-boot immediately to make the changes permanent. Since the system 'reads' stuff from the disk, on re-boot, your memory and disk should be consistent with one another. About DOS speed ... There are a couple of factors involved here. In Win98, you can pick DOS, Safe Mode DOS, and a DOS window, which you can still make full screen. The difference is the drivers that get loaded. Safe mode DOS has no (or the very minimum) drivers, regular DOS has more drivers, and DOS in a window invites the whole family in. Some of these drivers really enhance your speed, while others insure the accessability of your system's features. As a general observation, if it can be done in DOS, it gets done faster. I must qualify this. Usually the DOS method requires less work, and it's this less work which, when performed slower, still takes less time. (I can walk to the mailbox faster than The Commander can drive to town, even though his car is faster than my feet) If I copy a 'really big load' of data, Windows appears faster, probably because of vastly improved buffering and modern algorithms exploiting hardware resources more fully. However, a Windows application typically occupy several meg, where a DOS application is usually measured in kilobytes. When I use XCOPY in a DOS window, XCOPY32 does the actual work. Open a DOS window, and see what appears in the title bar. I use Norton Utilities. NU allows me to chose another drive for my swap file. I don't have another drive, so I haven't explored this feature. If NU can do it, then we know it can be done. Perhaps a registry edit could be the answer. We can see if anyone posts additional information. Cheers, PW.