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To: thecow who wrote (36736)	9/12/2003 7:59:51 AM
From: rgood2002	Respond to of 110652

yes, i put some "del" commands in my autoexec.bat file to clear out cache files in various places.

To: thecow who wrote (36736)	9/12/2003 9:38:02 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 110652

thecow and Sultan, thanks for your feedback on IE cache size. I'll set mine to 25 MB now because at cleanup I've seldom seen over 15. Gottfried

To: thecow who wrote (36736)	9/13/2003 2:50:57 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

"...benefit from a larger amount of cache space..." - Since my Windows 3.1 experience may not translate into anything usable in later Windows, i make this short. - After increasing my 486 memory from 4 MegBytes to 32 i was still unable to get my Opera 3.62 browser to use a larger sized cache. I say this since each time i would click onto any url, my hard drive light would flicker telling me that a part of Opera needed to accomplish my request was not in memory, and thus loaded from my hard drive. - This is different from using data obtained from the internet, and stored in your cache, and re-used when you visit the same url and be notified that the data has not changed. - Opera is small comparied to IE and Netscape, and i never could figure out how to tell it to load itself completely in memory. - Most likely Windows 3.1 took control of its loading, and most likely someplace is an easy way to manage it better. - I do know many memory management programs are available, but they are really needed (i think) in the long past years where many programs needed to be run in lower memory, or using that extended & expanded memory methods. But today i'am guessing no one here needs these types of programs. - So what i did was create a RAM Disk inside CONFIG.SYS and inside AUTOEXEC.BAT do a COPY of the directory where i use to run Opera from, and copy it into the RAM(memory) directory, and have Opera from Windows RUN from there. - Thus, the Opera could Page/Swap itself out from "disk" to memory all it wanted since it was really memory-to-memory and didn't access my hard drive after the copy into the memory RAM directory. - I'am sure once i get a pc with 256 or 512 of memory that i'll find a program writting to a file on my hard disk over and over causing my hard drive to work "too much" so i'll create directories in memory and give that as pathnames for it to work with. - WARNING: Unlike files on hard drive, those in memory are lost if your pc loses power, or you do a RESET type re-boot. I'am thinking the CTRL-ALT-Delete is o.k. since it does not re-something memory, unless it does the same CONFIG.SYS. doug