Does Walign.exe and/or Winalign.exe Tools work in Win2k?

[Escalade]

This is what those tools do BTW...

The Winalign.exe and Walign.exe tools optimize the performance of programs by optimizing a program's executable code (binaries). Windows 98 Setup installs the Walign.exe tool, and this tool is used to optimize Microsoft Office version 7.0 for Windows 95 or Microsoft Office 97 programs. The Winalign.exe tool is included in the Windows 98 Resource Kit, and is used to optimize other programs.

Winalign.exe and Walign.exe optimize programs by rewriting a program's file headers, creating a new section table, and then writing file sections, each of which starts on a 4-kilobyte (KB) boundary. The new section table is then updated with this information, and the file headers are also updated to denote the file is now aligned to a 4-KB boundary. By aligning files in this manner, the Windows 98 CacheMap feature can map directly to sections in the cache memory. This can result in significant performance increases by freeing memory.

More information can be found here...http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q191655

 

[AndyHui]

Nope....not needed.

The program doesn't work in Win2K.

Are you still using Office 95 or 97?

 

[Escalade]

<< Nope....not needed. >>



Thanks! I figured if they did work I'd would have heard more about it. I remember using it with Win98 and doing some benchmarks; showed about a 5-15% better load times... you know any little bit helps

 

[AndyHui]

Execute the command diskperf -n at the command prompt.

That will turn off Disk IO logging, reducing disk access overhead and do far more for performance than WALIGN can ever do.

This command only applies to Win2K Pro.....it is disabled in WinXP.