Four and Twenty 0 Posted February 1, 2001 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. Share this post Link to post
TB99 0 Posted February 1, 2001 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 Share this post Link to post
Four and Twenty 0 Posted February 1, 2001 Quote: <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? Share this post Link to post
Guest Posted February 2, 2001 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. Share this post Link to post
INFERNO2000 0 Posted February 2, 2001 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? Share this post Link to post
EddiE314 0 Posted February 2, 2001 Quote: <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).] Share this post Link to post
Four and Twenty 0 Posted February 2, 2001 Quote: <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. ------------------ 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 Share this post Link to post
CUViper 0 Posted February 2, 2001 games have no control of whether or not windows gives them swap memory or physical memory.... it's purely a function of the os... Share this post Link to post
Guest Posted February 2, 2001 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).] Share this post Link to post
Four and Twenty 0 Posted February 2, 2001 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 Share this post Link to post
Guest Posted February 2, 2001 Four and Twenty: You like using those "quotes" doncha!? Share this post Link to post
clutch 1 Posted February 2, 2001 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. ------------------ Regards, clutch [This message has been edited by clutch (edited 02 February 2001).] Share this post Link to post
EddiE314 0 Posted February 3, 2001 thats ok Sandovol, been in the registry enough to overlook your mistake. Share this post Link to post
Four and Twenty 0 Posted February 4, 2001 So is it "Max Cached Icons" or "MaxCachedIcons" Share this post Link to post
Four and Twenty 0 Posted March 6, 2001 makes computer cache more icons so the menus and sh1t load faster Share this post Link to post
Vampyr 0 Posted March 7, 2001 I find that setting the value to 2000 is sufficient Share this post Link to post
pimpin_228 0 Posted March 7, 2001 So it's just a setting that you change Share this post Link to post
Four and Twenty 0 Posted March 7, 2001 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 Share this post Link to post
pimpin_228 0 Posted March 10, 2001 yyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh1 more and it's 100 Share this post Link to post
pimpin_228 0 Posted March 10, 2001 yeah 100 posts oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh Share this post Link to post