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Increasing Disk Performance
Ever wonder why Windows 3.1 was noticeably faster than Windows 3.11? It
has to do with something called Synchonous Buffer Commits, this tells
Windows whether or not to lie to an application and tell the application
that it's writing data to the drive when Windows is actually caching the
data in memory. With Windows '95 they give you the option to disable this,
thus increasing disk intensive application performance but there are some
caveats to consider. If you lose power the data in cache will NOT be
written to disk this will be BAD so I'd only recommend using this on a
machine with an UPS. Well, Here how you do it.
- Go to Start \ Settings \ Control Panel \ System \ Performance \
File System \ Troubleshooting
- Check the box Disable synchronous buffer commits.
Expect about a 10% speed increase in disk intensive applications.
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