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To: PMS Witch who wrote (12013)	9/20/2000 8:53:03 PM
From: d. alexander	Respond to of 110653

>>>In a DOS window, type MEM /D That worked very well too. I'm working on the CONFIG.SYS... (after dinner:) Many thanks d.

To: PMS Witch who wrote (12013)	9/23/2000 4:46:20 PM
From: tanstfl	Respond to of 110653

<<smartdrv.sys>> Sorry for the delay in responding. I was working on a Win2000 machine last week and I had to convert my WinME machine at my other house to boot into DOS (See www.langa.com for the how to). Anyway, smartdrv.sys was the original microsft disk caching software and was later replaced by smartdrv.exe. Under Windows 3.1 you could add parameters on the command line for how much memory to use in DOS and windows (if you were using windows 32 bit driver). ie smartdrv 2048 128. The 128 Kbytes was useful for caching a device using a real mode driver such as a floppy. I set up the following configuration on my WinME machine: CONFIG.SYS [MENU] menuitem=WinME menuitem=DOS menudefault=Winme,5 menucolor=15,1 [COMMON] device=c:\windows\ifshlp.sys [WinME] [DOS] AUTOEXEC.BAT @echo off goto %config% :DOS c:\windows\smartdrv.exe :WinME SET windir=C:\WINDOWS SET winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS SET COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM SET PROMPT=$p$g SET TEMP=C:\TEMP SET TMP=c:\TEMP SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;c:\windows;c:\windows\COMMAND;C:\WINDOWS\Twain_32\SwUSB;C:\WINDOWS\Twain_32\SwUSB if %config%==WinME C:\WINDOWS\WIN.COM Using the above configuration it takes under 2 seconds to deltree the temporary internet directory (1300 files). If you comment out the line with smartdrv it takes over 4 minutes to do the same thing. I have not tried it under Win98 yet. You may need to add himem.sys into the config.sys file to setup the XMS memory. Don't recall. steve