win98 load/bootup speed question(s)

[Dee67]

I've been trying to tweak things to get my win98se to boot as quickly as possible. Question(s) though..

If I turn off verbose mode on my adaptec aha-2940u2w card (and several other drivers) this wouldn't speed things up any, it would just supress the text output, correct?

I already turned off the win splash screen, deleted unwanted fonts and set bootdelay=0... anything I'm missing? It's not painfully slow or anything, I'm just an impatient jerk and would like it as fast as I can possibly get it

Also, I tried adding "old school" dos tweaks to my config.sys & autoexec.bat like dos=high,umb and trying to cram everything possible into high memory - only to check the files and find that something has added the line:
Rem TShoot:
before each of the newly added commands.

Any idea what added that and how I can stop it from happening again?

Thanks!!!

 

[Trink]

Try the following sites for a variety of tweaks you are looking for to speed EVERTHING up from modems to windows etc.
www.tweakfiles.com
www.tweak3d.net
These two site should give you a few pointers.
Good luck.
Paul.T

 

[Dee67]

thanx Trink

I think I've tried virtually all the windows related ones now..

Anyone have any input on the verbose mode thing?

 

[johnlog]

>>>Also, I tried adding &quot;old school&quot; dos tweaks to my config.sys &amp; autoexec.bat like dos=high,umb and trying to cram everything possible into high memory <<<

First of all get rid of and delete autoexec.bat and config.sys as they are not needed in Win98. They only slow down your system and use up low memory.

Upgrade to Win ME over Win98 SE as I did and it fixes all those problems automatically during the installation process.

JohnL

 

[Dee67]

re: deleting config.sys &amp; autoexec.bat..

Funny thing, I tried deleting autoexec.bat and SOMEHOW it keeps getting re-written (apparently by soundblaster) because those are the only 3 lines in it:
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS
C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM

What effect would not having himem.sys and emm386.exe in the config.sys be??

Thanks