Author: K. Burcham
Date: 02:58:10 06/03/04
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I used to play around with partitions, virtual memory, etc. with my chess programs. I think with XP, fast processors, and large ram--1Gig or more--you will not see a difference in kns, using 2 or more partitions. For now, I am using my c drive for everything. This is with athlon 64, 1 Gig ram, and windows XP pro. Read what blackviper does to his system. These things I have always done also. Some of them will not speed your system to where you can detect, but in theory most of these are improvements in speed and simplicity. If you feel better having your tablebases on dedicated drive, then do so. I do not think this will slow your system access. I think it is important to keep system registry clean and simple. So many things I used to do with operating system, I do not do now. Once you learn your kns with certain program, you can monitor this to make sure that this does not decrease. I think it is a big mistake loading AOL, xupiter, gator, and many others. just remember that any software you load into a clean system--it aint clean no more because someone paid the host to ride in with your download. you can see the results of these riders in "msconfig", increase in tray, increase in desktop icons, etc. some of these changes will alter the registry and cannot be cleaned up without format. Good advice from this guy for windows XP http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm This guy states his preference http://www.d-silence.com/feature.php?id=246 "Some users prefer one large partition. Personally, I usually divide my hard drives into three partitions; C: for OS and critical applications; D: for games and utilities; E: for demos and music. For me, it makes finding things much faster. If you opt for one large partition, then utilize the full amount of space Windows says is available. After Windows creates the partition, you can also use Disk Management to format the drive. If you have multiple drives in your PC, it might be beneficial to use the Volume Label to designate which drive is which. If you decide to use multiple partitions, you must determine the size of your first partition. Disk Management will show the total space available on the drive. Specify an amount smaller than the total available and Windows will create the Primary partition. With the remaining space, you can create additional partitions. Again, after creating the partitions, use Disk Management to format the drives as well". another good site http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/WindowsXP.htm http://www.dslreports.com/faq/4272 "If your hard drive is large enough, then partitioning is probably a good idea for you. Common practice is to have at least three partitions: one ~8GB for the OS, one ~10GB for Documents and other personal files, and whatever is left for programs. This setup may vary depending on how you use your system; if you do video editing for example, you may wish to have one large partition just for video". kburcham
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