Pc Windows Tips

I recently recieved an email from Chris in detroit who has an older machine he tinkers with and wanted to know how to increase the Cache performance for his home network on a Windows 95 PC.

Now older pc’s had very limited memory so if you have 64 megs or more of memory you can increase the performance of your system by doing the following.

1. Go to Control Panel / System Properties / Performance / File System.
2.  Change the typical role of this computer to Network Server.

If you have Windows 95 SR1, and you do not see a performance increase, occasionally the NameCache and PathCache values are written to the registry incorrectly for the Network Server.

To fix the problem:

1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates\Server
3. Make sure the following values are being used:
4. PathCache=40 00 00 00
5. NameCache=a9 0a 00 00

Hope this helps you out Chris!

Shawn DesRochers