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Richard Watson <rwatson@pwdltd.co.uk> wrote in message
news:m2r9f62kz9.fsf@bluesharp.pwdltd.co.uk...
> "Trevor Best" <trevor@easynet.co.uk> writes:

> > on looking in there, can't blame the OS for that. In linux, Nutscrape
> > insisted on installing on my very small root partition and not on my
/usr
> > partition where all the other apps went, it didn't give me a choice and
> > nearly broke the OS because the root was nearly out of space.
>
> Do you mean it installed onto /opt? Shurely it didn't make a /netscape
directory
> all of its own?

Can't remember, probably. It for sure didn't go into /usr, where there was
gigs and gigs of space.

> > Message best ignored, for best performance in 95/98, defrag a partition,
set
> > windows swap file on that partition with a fixed size, min & max being
the
> > same, Windows tells you this will hinder performance but the message is
> > wrong, it gains you performance as Windows will no longer spend time
> > resizing the swap file so this is faster.
>
> I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult when installing from scratch for the
> installer to be user friendly and do all this for you at least with
> the user's permission. Sorry I forgot MS don't ask those kind of
questions.

Yes, MS reckon on the level of user to not be an expert in such matters.

> Why is it that even if you specify that you _dont_ want some things
> (outlook express and IE5 spring to mind) put on during install, when you
> reboot (for the third time) there they are?

They don't want you to have to go to the trouble of downloading and
installing nutscrape :-)

> > The messages like that in Windows
> > are there because MS consider your average Windows user to be a Current
Bun
> > reader :-) For NT it's best to spread the swapfile over several disks if
you
> > have them (not several partitions on the same disk).
> >
>
> Incidentally what size do you set your (a) W9X and (b) NT swapfiles to?

Depends on my wants, needs and haves. ATM at home I have Windows managing it
as I haven't yet gotten around to setting it up myself. On my old P75 in
Win95, I would set it about 100MB, that's both when I had the original 16MB
and later upped to 48MB. I'll probably do the same if not a little more on
my current PC, which has 64MB. At work where I have 128MB and NT I've set it
to around 200MB as I only have 1 hard disk, given more disks I would set a
swapfile on each disk around the 64MB mark. Under 98 at work (on same PC) I
set it to 256MB.

Depending on what a machine is used for, I'll generally leave it Windows in
the first instance, use system monitor to see how much gets allocated during
normal use and go from there.