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Increasing Performance

This concerns the "Network Server" option ... You already know about the screw up in Win95 release prior to OSR2 but, did you know you can also customize the settings in the registry?

1. Open Regedit
2. Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates"
3. Add a new key called "Custom".
4. Then add two new binary values under that key with the names "NameCache" and "PathCache", just as with the other entries.
5. I would recommend using values somewhere in-between what the standard values are for "Desktop" and "Network Server". The values I have found to be the best compromise are "00 08 00 00" and "30 00 00 00" respectively, your milage may vary. (2048 filenames and 48 pathnames)
6. Close Regedit
7. Right click on "My Computer"
8. Select Properties then the Performance tab.
9. Select "File System" and you will now find the "Custom" option in the drop down box.
10. Select it and click on OK then be sure to reboot.

While this doesn't save a lot of memory, at least your name caches aren't using more than they need.

If you have 24 Megs or more of RAM, you can increase your performance

1. Right Click on My Computer
2. Select Properties
3. Click the Performance tab
4. Click on File System button
5. Select Network Server with Full Read-ahead Optimization

If you do not see a performance increase, occasionally the NameCache and PathCache values
are written to the registry incorrectly for the Network Server.
To fix the problem:

1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates\Server
3. Make sure the following values are being used:

• PathCache=40 00 00 00
• NameCache=a9 0a 00 00