Par2: Win 9.x performance settings 2001-07-01 -- Andrew Guidroz II To change the settings of the File System Troubleshooting property sheet In the Control Panel, double-click System, and then click the Performance tab. Click Advanced, and then click File System. Click the Troubleshooting tab. Click the setting you want to test. The switch settings are described in Table 10.10. Click OK and test to determine whether the setting selected solves the problem. If the problem is not solved, repeat the prior steps, choosing a different setting, until the problem is identified. Table 10.10 Debugging switch settings for file systems Switch Description Disable protected-mode hard disk interrupt handling Windows 98 captures the Int13h interrupts and processes them with a 32-bit virtual driver. If your program is having intermittent disk access problems, you may want to turn off this functionality. The program may then handle the Intl3h interrupts. This usually results in slower hard disk access, but it may solve problems with certain programs. Disable synchronous buffer commits This setting changes the behavior of the Commit File call. This setting should only be used when requested by the vendor of a specific program. Using this setting may decrease system reliability. Disable all 32-bit protected-mode drivers If you have a hard drive that is not completely compatible with Windows 98 and you are having problems accessing that drive, consider disabling the protected-mode drivers. This setting turns off the protected-mode drivers and enables the real-mode drivers. Again, this may result in slower hard drive access times. Disable write-behind caching for all drives This turns off the write caching functions. Caching is only performed on reads from the drives. Disabling the write-behind cache greatly slows down the processing of writing (saving) data to the drives, but it is safe. When a program indicates that data is written to the disk, the data is on the disk and not in a cache waiting to be written to the disk. If you are working in an environment where the quality of electrical power is questionable, for example, if there are frequent power spikes, brownouts, or power failures, and the data being written to the drive is critical, you may opt for this setting. Printed November 26, 2024, 10:23 pm This article has been viewed/printed 35246 times. |