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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: win3.0 performance
Message-ID: <1990May31.145141.20600@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 31 May 90 14:51:41 GMT
References: <1990May28.232831.8843@chinet.chi.il.us> <54910@microsoft.UUCP>
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In article <54910@microsoft.UUCP> jeffmu@microsoft.UUCP (Jeff MUZZY) writes:
>I would also have to include Hard disk fragmentation as a issue.
>Some people don't believe that you can get from a 5-10% performance
>increase from tuning a system by running smartdrv and a hard disk
>unfragmentation/compression program every week (Based on my compile
>and automated tests results.)

Hmm.  Is it cool to run Nortons speed disk now.  The last I remembered, 
Windows creates a swap file on the disk and running speed disk would screw
up the organization of that file.  Then again, that was quite a few months
ago so it may have changed in the final release.

-- 
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Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us