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APIC Mode Good or bad?
There appears to be ongoing debate regarding the usefulness of APIC mode. Deciding to enable or disable
this BIOS setting (ie: reversing it's current state) will require a full Widows re-install.
Familiarity with the state of the debate should be achieved via a reasonable amount (lots?) of Google research before
deciding if your system runs best with or without enabling it.
Useful Google searches for APIC Mode:
Tweak Sites
PurePerformance.com
Windows Registry Guide
TweakTown
Older Stuff
Paintshop Pro 7 Recent Files List :
Open the registry and find:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \
CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer \ NoRecentDocsHistory
If the key value of NoRecentDocsHistory = 1, the program will not display
recent files in the "File" menu. A value of 0 (zero) will enable the list again.
Windows ME and System Restore :
3d Spotlight Net have an excellent article on
Removing System Restore, and
thetechzone.com has a good list of specific
Windows ME Tweaks.
Windows ME and PWS :
According to this article,
at thetechzone.com, you should change the "C:\Program Files\Mts" install location to C:\MTS
Windows (9x) Disk, Swapfile & NIC Tweaks
Solutions to specific performance issues.
Definitely not suitable for every machine.
For the full details go to :
Pure Performance Com,
3d Spotlight Net
or
TweakTown
Network :
Under the "[386enh]"
section of your system.ini file.
Irq[N]=4096
Where 'N' = the IRQ of your network card.
Swapfile :
ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1
...but only if you've got 128MB or more of RAM
Disk :
Under the "[VCACHE]"
section of your system.ini file.
MinFileCache=N1
MaxFileCache=N2
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Where 'N1' & 'N2' vary according to the amount of memory available
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| Memory |
N1 |
N2 |
| 16MB | 1024 | 4096 |
| 32MB | 2048 | 6144 |
| 64MB | 4096 | 16384 |
| 128MB | 4096 | 32768 |
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