Why is Windows 2000 pro the best OS choice for Internet user

[Four and Twenty 0]

Does this mean that my system will cache 8000 icons now? That seems a little excessive but that is ok I'm all for it.

[TB99 0]

I tried using a RAMdrive for a lil while ... Win2k has to use software for it (Win9x only needs a few lines of text in notepad). It was okay ... I don't have enough ram to put my Pagefile on there, so I tried putting things like my IE Cache and stuff on there ... I didn't really notice it doing anything real spectacular with my computer so I got rid of it. I only have 256 megs of ram and made different sized drives (from 20-70 megs). It was cool for a lil while, but wasn't worth it for me in the end ... maybe if I expanded to 1gig of ram or something

[Four and Twenty 0]

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by TB99:
I tried using a RAMdrive for a lil while ... Win2k has to use software for it</font>

What software?

[Guest]

I dont know what software.. i havn't played with that yet. Do a search on NTcompatible, as there was a thread not too long ago which discussed this.

 

As for the cached icons part.. yes, that will put 8000 icons into cache. May be a little excesssive.. but oh well. It speeds things up considerably.

[INFERNO2000 0]

my Swap file is excessive....but it works.

 

I have one partition of about 800mb that I had nothing better to do, so I just set it for my swap partition....

 

so I have a 793mb swap there, and a 25mb swap on my C: drive(Adobe Photoshop needs it for osme reason).

 

 

Again, excessive, but what else would I do with a "small" partition like that?

[EddiE314 0]

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sandoval:
Go into regedt32

hkey local machine/software/microsoft/windows/explorer

then add a new value " Max Cached Icons "
and set it to 8000


AS far as the RAMdrive goes... I'm not sure cuz I havn't done it yet. I think you have to use 3rd party software. .. Anybody?</font>

Is Max Cached Icons one word? and what value do i add, a Binary? or just a regular String Value?

[This message has been edited by EddiE314 (edited 02 February 2001).]

[Four and Twenty 0]

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by jdulmage:
there are games that require a swap file no matter what, you should never 0 the swap file or do anything like that.</font>

What games? I run a bunch of games on Win Me and Wistler and both have the swap files disabled entirely.


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My System
Dell Demension XPS T500
Triple Boot
Windows 2000 Pro 2195
Windows Whistler Pro 2296
Windows Millennium Final Retail
PIII @ 500 Mhz (with after market heatsink and dual fan)
512 Megs Ram
Guillemot Maxi Gammer Cougar (TNT2 M64 w/ 32 Megs of RAM)
Matrox Millennium PCI (w/ 4 Megs of RAM for second monitor)
3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 Ethernet Card
Abit Hot Rod Pro ATA-100 RAID Controler
2 x 12.6 Gig Maxtor Hard Disks RAID 0 (for system)
1 76.3 Gig Maxtor Hard Disk (for storage)
40X LG CD Rom Drive
100 Mb Iomega Internal Zip Drive
MS Explorer Mouse
MS Natural Keyboard Pro
And not a single peice of software that I actually own

[CUViper 0]

games have no control of whether or not windows gives them swap memory or physical memory.... it's purely a function of the os...

[Guest]

hkey local machine,software,microsoft,windows,current version,explorer

(sorry, in my last entry I forgot the "current version" part)

 

add value Max Cached Icons

string 8000

 

that should do it!

 

[This message has been edited by Sandoval (edited 02 February 2001).]

[Four and Twenty 0]

Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by CUViper:
games have no control of whether or not windows gives them swap memory or physical memory.... it's purely a function of the os...</font>

That's what I thought

[Guest]

Four and Twenty:

 

You like using those "quotes" doncha!?

 

[clutch 1]

Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sandoval:
Four and Twenty:

You like using those "quotes" doncha!?

</font>

I know I do.



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Regards,

clutch

[This message has been edited by clutch (edited 02 February 2001).]

[EddiE314 0]

thats ok Sandovol, been in the registry enough to overlook your mistake.

[Four and Twenty 0]

So is it

 

"Max Cached Icons" or "MaxCachedIcons"

[Guest]

Max Cached Icons

 

 

with the spaces

[pimpin_228 0]

WHat are max cached icons

[Four and Twenty 0]

makes computer cache more icons so the menus and sh1t load faster

[Vampyr 0]

I find that setting the value to 2000 is sufficient

[pimpin_228 0]

So it's just a setting that you change

[Four and Twenty 0]

it is more like a setting that you add cause it was not there before to change it but yeah you basically have the right idea

[pimpin_228 0]

Okay iunderstand now

[pimpin_228 0]

Cool anoth time at the top of page

[pimpin_228 0]

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[pimpin_228 0]

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