Tutorials | A Few Windows Speed Tweaks

Publish date: 18:01 Thursday, 28th July 2005
Written by: MishY
Audience intended for: Windows ME Users, Windows 98 Users, Windows 95 Users
Category: Windows

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Some of the below tweaks are for the advanced user who is fully accustomed to tweaking both their system.ini and msdos.sys files.

If you have any questions related to these tweaks or would like me to include some in my list then please make a post on our help forums

Here's some of the speed tweaks I use :

LoadTop=0 Loads command.com at the top of your conventional memory

BootMulti=0 Stops windows from being able to look to see if you're multibooting. Can shave a second or 2 from your boot time.

Logo=0 Turns the Windows logo off at boot - can save a second off boot time.

BootDelay=0 The 0 is the amount of seconds windows waits before booting. 0 obviously cuts it down. (only needed in Win95)

BootGUI=1 Loads Windows 9.x automatically.

Under the [386Enh] section....

LocalLoadHigh=1 Allows the maximum conventional (low) DOS memory (RAM) in a DOS session/box

MinSPs=4 Can prevent stack fault errors by increasing the number of stacks. (Win9.x only)

Open System Properties (right click MyComputer and click properties) then click on the device manager. Click on the "+" next to SystemDevices. Then highight the DMA Controller and select properties. Then click on the settings tab. Put a tick in the Reserve DMA buffer box and put the maximum value of 64 in that box. Click OK, then OK. You may have to the reboot. This improves DMA access considerably. The default is 16. (Should really only use this tweak if you have 128MB+ RAM)

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