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From: roper@june.cs.washington.edu (Michael Roper)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Just how smart is "SmartDrive"?
Message-ID: <7229@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 89 21:29:46 GMT
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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The recent question about Windows and expanded memory prompts
this question about Windows and its disk cacher, SmartDrive.
Since SmartDrive took a beating in the recent review of such
programs in PC Magazine, I am considering dumping it for some-
thing that does a better job.  But I recently added 1M of ex-
panded memory and SmartDrive's claim to fame is its unique 
ability to relinquish expanded memory to Windows when asked.
It recovers the memory when Windows releases it.

This alone would make SmartDrive worth keeping, but I've seen
no evidence (MS-Exec About Box) that this actually works.  I
suppose it is possible that the original size of SmartDrive is
always displayed, but that doesn't seem too useful and makes
even less sense since these programs are supposed to be working
together.

Does this really work?

Mike Roper