Quoting Niels Petersen to Neil Skepper in message dated 05 May 1996:

 > Win95 has a sort of dynamic swap file. You can set the size yourself,
 > but the book advises to let the OS look after it.
 > Theoretically it can expand to the size of your hard drive, but it'd run
 > like an a snail on sedatives.

 NP> It's a pain.  I'm slow but not that slow ;-)

Not even my old frail aunty after a Sunday roast would be that slow  8-)

 >  NP> On all machines I have setup, the _only_ time there is disc
 >  NP> activity, is when a file is actually read or written, which is how
 >  NP> it _should_ be.

 > Sounds fair. I'll keep this in mind as a change back to Win 3.1 is on
 > the cards for me 8-)

 NP> I have a friend who did just that until he can get afford 2 gig
 NP> drive, 20 meg of Ram, a pentium motherboard and replacements for
 NP> all his Vesa cards :-( 

I now have 20M (thanks to a birthday and the low prices ATM) and it has
made a big difference. 

I won't be doing the rest for a while, I can't afford to change to Pentium
or 686 coz I'll have to change  M/B and graphics card too.

 
Cheers,

Neil.

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