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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.