How do I get win 98 to use all my ram before it uses the hard drive?

[mellondust]

I have 384 mb of ram. I know there is a way to use a line of code so win98 uses all of the ram before it will store suff on the hard drive. My system used to be set up that way but it was so long ago that I did it I can't remember how. I reinstalled win 98 and want to set it up the same way. Anyone know of a website describing this or have the line of code and where is goes. Thanks.

 

[Bucksnort]

Make a swap file equal in min and max settings, 384 would be fine. In system ini. under 386 enh add the line: conservative swapfile usage=0

 

[mellondust]

Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for.

 

[mellondust]

By the way, what is the difference between:

conservative swapfile usage=0
conservative swapfile usage=1

someone else suggested the latter with it equal to 1.

 

[Lorne]

put this into your sytem.ini under

[386Enh]
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1

What this does is force all your ram to be used before the pagefile, All win 98,98se and ME can use it, Its a must for those with a good amount of ram, Suggested 256 or more but it can still help those with 128.
The "1" means ON where the "0" means OFF

 

[btvillarin]

A freeware/shareware program (it's free, if you can't pay, with no restrictions) is Cacheman 5. It does all this, and optimize your cache to the way you need it with a few wizards. Run it, configure, save, and reboot. Before you know it, everything will be running great.
(Make sure you disable it from starting up with Windows.)
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