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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.
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