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Message   James Hirner    Jon Mann   Re: WIN95 speed...   March 17, 1996
 1:35 AM *   

Re: Re: WIN95 speed...

>  KN> Some people run Win95 without any problems. Others don't. I fall into
>  KN> the "don't" pile.  I've got a Pentium 100mhz with 8 meg ram and I've
>  KN> encountered a number of "delays," such  as when I open the start menu
>  KN> to launch a program. Not much, and nothing fatal, but it is a delay.
> I found that my machine was also slow responding to the start button,
> and also when right-clicking on the desktop and selecting 'properties' -
> this turned out to be caused by my running in >256 colours with a hi-res
> picture as background.  When I reduced the background picture to
> 256-colours, it speeded up dramatically (and is faster than Win3.1,
> which I have as a dual-boot system).

If you remove the background totally until all you have is a simple color
that correspondes with your color configuration, it turns out to look really
kewl and your system runs even faster.

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