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RISC OS 3.1 - Making it go quicker.

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From: Stuart Boutell
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:20

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I recently fitted RISC OS 3.1, and it felt slower to me too. 

If you want it to 'feel' as fast as it did under RISC OS 2,
RMFaster the following modules before entering the desktop, in
approx. decreasing order of subjective speed improvement:

	WindowManager
	WindowUtils
	FontManager
	MessageTrans

Moving windows, redraws, etc, now seem almost as fast as RISC OS 2,
all for the price of a couple of hundred Kb of RAM. 

Most importantly, the boot-up title page gets drawn _much_ faster. :-)

If you use Ran's version of !Usage, then if you RmFaster FilterManager
as well, !Usage uses half as many CPU cycles obtaining the usage
information.

Seasons Greetings,
Stuart

PS Don't use rmkill on MessageTrans or Resourcefs. Loosing either
of these modules leaves the machine in a very undesirable condition...

-- 
Stuart Boutell, Spider Systems Ltd, Edinburgh - stuartb@spider.co.uk

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