SPEED CHECK If after making the suggested changes, you are able to complete the following tasks in the specified time, then you have it all OK. If not go back through and double check everything, in particular, int's. and irq's. FROM WITHIN WINDOWS........................................ IN LESS THAN A SECOND IN ABOUT 1 SECOND IN ABOUT 3 SECONDS --------------------- ----------------- ------------------ 1. Fill entire screen with 1. Cd from hard disk to 1. Roll out to dos... paper.bmp.............. ram drive, or from 2. Bring up clock... 2. Arrange icons.......... hd to floppy disk... 3. Close a Notepad file 3. Do a dir of the ram dr. 2. View entire dir of and bring up another 4. From Win's dos prompt, 1.2 meg. floppy from file................ type...set and view MSDOS.EXE........... 4. Call up Solitare.... environment............ 3. View any hard disk 5. Go from dos prompt 5. type ... ver from dos directory from MSDOS. back into Windows... prompt to view ver...... EXE.................. 4. Call up MSDOS.EXE.... 5. Within Sysedit.Exe, switch from any program to another... i.e. win.ini to config.sys............. 6. End Windows session and be at dos prompt from MSDOS. EXE....................... 7. Close clock........ 8. From Program mgr., switch from any module to another.. i.e. NON WINDOWS APP to MAIN.. 9. From Notepad, call up any text text file from another drive.. . COMBINED NOTES AUTOEXEC.BAT AND CONFIG.SYS PCXT AUTOEXEC.BAT @ECHO OFF @CLS COPY /B COMMAND.COM D:\ /V SET COMSPEC=D:\COMMAND.COM PATH D:\;D:\TEMP;C:\;C:\WINDOWS;C:\dos;.. MD D:\TEMP SET TEMP=D:\TEMP . . . Notes: 1. Re: "copy /b \command.com d:\ /v"...the 'd' is the drive that Ramdrive creates...only if 'd' is the 'next' available drive, if you are not sure of your 'next' available drive, setup config.sys first...keep your finger on the pause key..when Ramdrive creates the drive, it will tell you what that drive letter is....THEN setup this autoexec.bat to read 'that next' drive.... YOU are then setting or copying: COMSPEC, the MD\TEMP, the SET TEMP and copying command.com to that 'next' drive....... ( OK? ) ..... 2. Watch the path......also, the 'dos;..' was not a mistake in the previous WIN86.ZIP file....like the textbook says.. this makes DOS files and commands available from anywhere, and the PARENT DIRECTORY of any subdirectory becomes available...(remember, .. means the parent of the current directory.....) i.e. if you have 3 data sub dir's such as... \wordproc\msword\data \wordp\data \scripsit\data a user in any of the \data subdirs has access to files and commands in the respective PARENT directory.... Windows does not work well appended so a ;.. will have to be a very poor replacement for now. . . PCXT CONFIG.SYS DEVICE=C:\?\SETVER.EXE (DOS 5.0 only) DEVICE=C:\?\EMM.SYS DEVICE=C:\?\SMARTDRV.SYS 1384 640 /A DEVICE=C:\?\RAMDRIVE.SYS 640 /A INSTALL=C:\?\FASTOPEN.EXE C:=(150,150) /x FILES=30 BUFFERS=1 STACKS=0,0 SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /e:384 /p . . . Notes: 1. Replace \?\ with the directory the files are in 2. Re: Fastopen.exe, DOS 5.0 does not use file extents (10,15) only files (10). 3. Use Buffers=1 to save memory (default is 8), and only if you are installing Smartdrv as above; in any case, do not use the Buffers /x switch with Smartdrv........ 4. You can pump up the environment to whatever is necessary to rid the "out of environment" message...1024, etc..... 5. Break=On slows down a system and should not be used... 6. I strongly suggest using an Ansi driver other than DOS's Ansi.sys since it slows down a system. . . For advanced users, I have 5 additional tips that I use daily to speed windows and other programs. However, these practices are currently under test. I expect the trial and error period to be completed by August 1st. range. If I can present it simply enough, the file will be contributed under the name of WIN861.zip. If I cannot keep the instructions simple, and you would care to receive a copy of these additional instructions, please leave a message to my attention. . . Hundreds of people have downloaded this file (in one day about 250).. PCWEEK has doen an article on it...the interest is there to make Win run on a PCXT so a user can be productive. I hope that you will will share this file with your friends so they will not be discouraged from trying Windows on an XT. As to 286 and 386 users, it would be quite difficult to offer a configuration via a contributed file of this nature. When I set up a system for my clients, I use every software utiltiy you can imagine, and it takes at least an hour, and that is in front of the pc....on site. I regret I cannot be more specific and helpful to all the 286 and 386 users who have taken the time to write me. I can say that 'right out of the box', the Windows setup program cannot begin to advise you on the most important aspect of setup...int's. and irq's., including memory. If every device you have attached is working but the system seems slow, go back through your system hardware and software int's amd irq's. This is where I find the major hangups are. . . . Sincerely, Rick Morley 70154,1757 .