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Protip: Windows 95 (and 98) installs much faster hdd-to-hdd if you start smartdrv.exe in your config.sys/autoexec.bat even with minimal write cache.
by wruza 5y ago
Protip: Windows 95 (and 98) installs much faster hdd-to-hdd if you start smartdrv.exe in your config.sys/autoexec.bat even with minimal write cache.
- thomasz 5y agoThanks, that would have been really helpful advice a quarter of a century ago :)
- mixmastamyk 5y agoYou could run smartdrv.exe later, I believe.
- inglor_cz 5y agoSmartdrv.exe was a vital utility on DOS systems. You had to unload it to play some games, though, otherwise they wouldn't fit into memory (DOOM on 4 MB systems, Duke Nukem on 8 MB systems). God, I am old.
- spinny 5y agothe good old day when 4mb of ram would cost an arm and a leg. first upgrade on my old 486dx4 100mhz