Re: WIN95 speed...

> Some people run Win95 without any problems. Others don't. I fall into the
> "don't" pile. One item is the speed - I read somewhere ( i think on the AP
> wire) that Win95 turns out to be 20-30 percent slower than Windows 3.11.
> Could be more Win95 bashing, but I think some of it must be true because
> frankly, my computer is running way to slow with this thing. I've got a
> Pentium 100mhz with 8 meg ram and I've encountered a number of "delays," such
> as when I open the start menu to launch a program. Not much, and nothing
> fatal, but it is a delay.

This is because Win95 is more effecient at loading program code.  It doesn't
load in the code to run the start menu until you hit the start button.  That
way, more ram is available for other programs.  With win 3.x, it wasn't quite
as smart.

Also, when Win95 DOES need to swap, it doesn't swap program code out of ram
onto the hard drive.  It just overwrites it with new data.  When it needs to
read it back in again, it goes to the ORIGINAL exe to read in the code.  So
the swap file is used for DOS sessions, and program data storage.