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From: carlw@ka.excelan.com (Carl Wohlforth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: win3.0 performance
Summary: Speed Disk OK
Message-ID: <1349@excelan.COM>
Date: 1 Jun 90 16:25:41 GMT
References: <1990May28.232831.8843@chinet.chi.il.us> <54910@microsoft.UUCP> <1990May31.145141.20600@chinet.chi.il.us>
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	Speed disk organized files into contiguous blocks.  Windows 3.0 
requires a contigous disk space for its swap file.  For those of us with
plenty of disk space performance can be improved by running speed disk
to create a large empty area on the disk.  Then follow MS instructions
on creating a permanent swap area.  I always reboot after running 
speed disk.

In article <1990May31.145141.20600@chinet.chi.il.us>, patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) writes:
> 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
> >...
> 
> Hmm.  Is it cool to run Nortons speed disk now.  The last I remembered, 
> ...
> 
> -- 
> "Organized fandom is composed of a bunch of nitpickers with a thing for
>  trivial pursuit."  -Harlan Ellison
> 
> Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us

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