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Subject: Re: Fritz7 - memory leak?

Author: William Penn

Date: 07:49:30 10/11/02

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On October 10, 2002 at 11:34:17, William Penn wrote:

>On October 10, 2002 at 10:57:31, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On October 10, 2002 at 10:50:03, William Penn wrote:
>>
>>>On October 10, 2002 at 10:43:46, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>
>>>>Have you already tried to delete the file "ShellconCache" in c:\windows?
>>>>Kurt
>>>
>>>No. I haven't run across that recommendation before, or I forgot about it. I'd
>>>need a reference to some tech info such as...  Instructions how to do it. What
>>>happens thereafter? What could be harmed thereby?
>>>WP
>>
>>The hidden file "ShellconCache" is a cache to enable Windows to improve speed by
>>building up the icons. But sometimes there are errors in it. You can delete the
>>file and nothing can be harmed thereby.
>>Kurt
>
>Thanks. I'll try it. I searched at google.com and read about deleting
>ShellIconCache. It seems OK to delete from Safe mode. I'll report back if the
>black icons re-occur. If they don't show up again within a week, that would be
>fairly indicative...
>WP

I've done that now. I also decided to set the minimum swap file size (Virtual
Memory) to 512MB which seems to improve system resources considerably (by
10-20%) as well as greatly reduces hard drive activity. Seems ok with my 255MB
RAM and 80G hard drive, so far...
WP



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