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Re: pre-installation question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (robob)
Fri Nov 8 19:13:25 1996

Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 19:12:50 -0500 (EST)
From: robob <robob@robob.com>
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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, John Morrissey wrote:

> >  >> You can turn off the swap file in Win95, somewhere in control panel,
> >  >> I recall.  You will then have to run defrag from "safe mode"
> > 
> >  Charles> Suppose I were to just delete the swap file (from safe mode).
> >  Charles> Will Windows know to create a new one when I reboot?
> > 
> > Usually, but, watch out!
> 
> My windows swap file got deleted once, and Windows refused to start. You can
> try chaning the following lines in your system.ini:
> 
> MinPagingFileSize=35840
> MaxPagingFileSize=35840
> 
>

This should go off this list but:


DO NOT DO SYSTEM.INI STUFF IN WIN95 UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.

This should not be necessary in Win95.  The main reason system.ini is
still there is backward compatibility and there is no guarantee that it
will be there in the future:) 


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