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Ok then so I guess no one knows how to fix this problem? Would there be any reason to think MS could? With the new support policy I only get 2 calls, hate to waste one on a tweak....

Well thanks for the try, but that setting seems to have no effect. The situation is that when I am downloading in Agent (newsgroup reader) windows seems to try an cache all its disk activity, using all free ram, swapping out applications to disk, and then releasing it them when needed, only to swap it right back out. As ou can guess this kills system performance, now on my desktop with 256MB its not a big issue but on the laptop with only 128MB the system just crawls. But with Win9x I could use the previously mentioned [vcache] settings and all was fine. I have tried all of the registry tweaks from sites like www.tweak3d.net, etc... none seem to help... Does anyone know how to limit the disc cache in Windows 2000?

viper? what service is that? Sprint ION? how far are you from the CO?

I want to limit, to about 8-16MB, the disc cache size in Win2K. In Win9x the system.ini section... [vcache] MinFileCache=0 MaxFileCache=8192 would do this, How can I control this in Win2K? The reason is that windows seems to be inceradibly stupid in the way it handles the cache, not clearing the cache to make room for apps, and forcing them to swap to disc...