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TIPS AND TRICKS: WINDOWS 98
Posted Date: 22 Mar 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: Computer & Technology
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Posted By: arunkumar Member Level: Gold
Rating:  Points: 5
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Turn off Task Scheduler
First of all, turn off the Task
Scheduler, unless it really
is scheduling something
important. Most users have
no critical programs scheduled,
especially after freshly
installing Windows. The
scheduling utility keeps running
in the background,
unnecessarily hogging memory.
To disable it, doubleclick
the Task Scheduler icon
in the system tray and click
Advanced > Stop Using Task
Scheduler. When you create a
scheduled task, the feature
will be enabled.
Nix the Active Desktop
For a healthy Windows, you
have to get rid of the Active
Desktop. Microsoft had
added this feature with
Internet Explorer 4 and later
into Windows when it
integrated the browser and
the operating system. It
allows you to display Web
content on the desktop
itself. The Active Desktop
hogs a ridiculous amount
of memory and often causes
the system to be unstable.
Simply right-click on an
empty area of the desktop
and disable View as Web
Page to turn this off. If
you set JPEG or GIF files
as your wallpaper, this
feature needs to be turned
on. It is better to convert
them to BMPs before setting
them as the wallpaper.
Enable DMA
Direct Memory Access
(DMA) is a technique that
hard disks and CD-ROM
drives can use to transfer
data directly to and from
memory, without passing
through the processor. DMA
reduces the load on the system
processor since data
transfers do not require
monitoring by the CPU.
With DMA, a write or read
operation can be executed in
two to four clock cycles.
Without DMA it will cost the
CPU a minimum of 16 clock
cycles per operation. Not
only do disk read/write operations
gain a significant
boost in speed, but Windows
also works faster, since it can
load system files much faster
and also accesses the swap
file at higher speeds.
Older hard disks and CDROM
drives do not support
DMA, but almost all computers
today use DMA-compliant
devices. In case you
face a problem after enabling
DMA, reboot Windows to
Safe Mode and disable the
option. Also, DMA needs to
be enabled from the BIOS,
but again, on most computers,
this is on by default.
DMA is supported only in
Windows 95 OSR 2 and later.
To enable DMA, open
Control Panel > System > Device
Manager. Expand the Disk
drives tree, select the hard
disk and click Properties.
Under the Settings tab,
check the DMA option.
Repeat this for all other
hard disks and the CD-ROM
or DVD-ROM drives.
File system properties
Changing the File System
settings can also provide better
performance. First,
change your computer’s role
to a Network Server, even if
it is not one. Open Control
Panel > System > Performance
and click File System. Under
the Hard Disk tab, change
the typical role of the computer
to Network server
instead of Desktop computer.
The setting controls the
size of various internal data
structures used by the 32-bit
file access driver (VFAT).
When you use the Desktop
computer setting, VFAT allocates
memory to record the
32 most recently accessed
folders and 677 most recently
accessed files, consuming
approximately 10 KB of
memory. With the Mobile or
docking system setting,
VFAT allocates memory to
record 16 folders and 337
files, taking up around 5 KB
of memory. As a Network
server, VFAT allocates
around 40 KB of memory to
record 64 folders and 2,729
files. With the kind of
memory available on systems
today, this slight overhead
hardly makes any
difference, especially considering
the performance gain
it provides.
Optimise virtual memory
The way virtual memory is
configured tremendously
affects Windows performance.
This is true for all
versions of Windows,
including the now-obsolete
Windows 3.1. The swap file
is what Windows uses to
store temporary data when it
runs out of RAM. Thus, your
working is not limited by the
amount of RAM on your
machine. However, for a
program to be able to use
this data, it must be transferred
back to the RAM. The
data that is not immediately
required is moved to a part
of the hard disk and recalled
when required. However,
since hard disks are nowhere
as fast as RAM, swapping
data back and forth drastically
reduces speed. No matter
how much RAM you
have, Windows will always
use the swap file for some
infrequently used parts of
the OS .
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| Author: Prasad 18 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold Points : 2 | Thanks for useful information
| | Author: Krishnan C 21 May 2008 | Member Level: Silver Points : 2 | Thanks for useful information
| | Author: Vidya 24 May 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 2 | useful information
| | Author: Shyni 31 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold Points : 2 | This is great Information, Thanks for your effort to share it with everyone.
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