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Improving Cd Rom performance

 

You can set performance parameters on practically every computer

that comes with a built-in CD-ROM. Go to Control Panel/System/

Performance, click on the File System button under Advanced

settings and open the CD-ROM tab. You can increase your cache

size and inform Windows 9x of your CD-ROM's speed so it can

optimize access to the CDs you use.

 

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In Control Panel/System/Performance, select File System

and the CD-ROM tab. Move the Supplemental Cache Size slider

to the right to allocate more RAM for caching data from

the CD-ROM drive, or to the left to allocate less. Multimedia

programs perform better with a smaller cache because they

seldom reuse data. For reading continuous data, such as

AVI files, use a higher setting for Optimize Access Pattern.

For reading random data, increase the Supplemental Cache

Size and decrease the Optimize Access Pattern.