Re: Norton's Utilities 2.0's Speed Disk

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From: Mark
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 17:05

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nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:

>In article <1992Sep1.023805.24219@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes:

>   Is Norton's Utilities 2.0's Speed Disk "bug free" now for use under System
>   7.0?  If there are any remaining problems, what are they?  Any comments on
>   the quality of optimization achieved are welcome.

>I've never had any problems with it. It seems to run slowly though (i.e. when
>actually optimising) compared to, say, SilverLining.

I have found that increasing the memory partition for speed disk greatly
increases its speed. Set the partition to a few MB or greater.

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