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To: mr.mark who wrote (7287)	12/9/1999 6:22:00 AM
From: Doug Coughlan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110583

Want to speed your hard drive by 15% or more? Reduce the load on your CPU by up to 40%? All for free? I did this and did notice an improvement in things. Here's how: "Direct memory access," a way for one part of a computer to bypass the CPU and take a "short cut" that can significantly speed operations. In Windows, you can see your hard drive's current DMA settings by right clicking on My Computer, then Properties, then Device Manager, then Disk Drives. Next, click on your hard drive(s)---it may have an opaque name such as "Generic IDE Disk Type 01"---and then click on the Settings Tab. If you have a system of reasonably recent vintage, you'll probably see an UNchecked DMA option in the dialog box. If the DMA option is UNchecked, check it and click OK. Before you do this it would be a good idea to read this related article. winmag.com