[Xastir] Windows 98 feature after deleting Cygwin/Xastir

[JD Erskine]

At 14:42 5/24/04 -0700, Bill Vodall WA7NWP wrote:
>
>I've been doing LOTS of installs of Xastir/Cygwin and the corresponding
>removals of the entire Cygwin system.   That's hundreds of megabytes and
>thousands of files.   It appears that some resource in Windows 98 is used up
>by doing the large delete.   It takes a significant time for the folder I
delete
>"cygwin" out of to come back to life, redraw, and again respond to clicks and
>other events.  Following this massive delete, very often other window redraws
>and actions on the desktop suffer the same multi-minute freeze in
activity.  The
>only cure I've found is to reboot.
>
>(Empty space added for Curt's obligatory Linux comment.   :-)   )
>
>Does anybody here know what "feature" of Windows 98 I'm running in to
>and if there's a real fix for it?   I'm essentially up to date on Windows
patches.
>
>Thanks.
>Bill - WA7NWP

I think Brenda's correct in part in as much as Findfast was one 'feature'
I've recently read recommendations one should disable. I don't have
references handy right now however other contributing factors may be,
Windows Explorer and Explorer (_not_ IE) in W98 is browser-like, I believe,
and while 'feature' laden i.e. can delete and rename things in Start menu
directly vice going into directory/file structure to do it, is quite a bit
slower than those in W95.

Additionally W98 has limited resource allocation capability unlike 'NT5 &
5.1' (W2K & XP). This apparently significantly slows things down after a
while operating with lots going on. So, from I remember reading recently,
no real fix.

I welcome corrections. One thing I did do was rip out IE4 and IE entirely
using W98Lite. One may replace the W98 Explorer with that from W95, as long
as one has licensed copies of both. Just opening up extra options viewed in
Control Panel, Add/Remove _Windows_ components cleared up some space quite
nicely. I was able to also totally get rid of Outlook Express so now run an
older Eudora for mail and Opera 7 as a browser on that machine. [New HDD
this wknd for the 'new' box, deciding what Linux distro is going on!!!]

Okay, found my stuff.

Win 98 Lite at:
http://www.litepc.com/
http://www.litepc.com/why.html

I have _not_ used this however it may help take care of some aspects of
memory usage in W98
http://www.sci.fi/~borg/rambooster/
The app is avail at:
http://www.tweakpc.com/Index.htm

Have to reboot/restart? Save time:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article06-033
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article06-031

More Vcache/memory/resources. Issues with any of them may be the problem.
Resources are a separate issue from memory:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12803660
http://www.techweb.com/winmag/columns/explorer/1999/0913.htm
http://thpc.info/ram/resources.html
http://forums.infoprosjoint.net/showthread.php?s=171c9d602264811cbedd19a6d8d
6c2a4&t=5629
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/resource.php

That last link above, 'bout half way down the page, describes the biggest
users of W98 resources as:
"
Programs with heavy graphics demands 
Multimedia programs 
Web browsers and, to a slightly lesser degree, any Internet-based program
"
Sounds like what we're running/learning to run! :{P

I won't even get into the basics you already know about, i.e. defrag, disk
cleanup, etc.
Win98 Windows Explorer _is_ slow.

All I can think of right now.

73 JD

John D. Erskine

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