Win95 build 4.00.950, Netscape 4.7, IE 5 5.50.4134.0600
Two drives; the original 1.6GB set as D, with the added 6.0GB partitioned into equal chunks (C:\, E:\, and F:\), with 123MB left in the Main C:\ partition. I have a 180MMX CPU w/128MB RAM (Maxxed out for this platform). My swap file is huge; 102+MB residing in the Root directory.
Ran ScanDisk (via DOS) last night and ran Defrag (3%) this morning. ScanDisk took forever, yet found no errors. Surface scan OK . . .
ZoneAlarm found nothing unusual; just the usual attempts from my ISP (at least that's what the WHOIS trace attributes the attempts' IP address to . . .)
All TEMP directories emptied; all *.TMP, *.??_, *.OLD and *.00? files removed, with the exception of the NAV definitions . . . How do you clear/reduce/slim down the .SWP file? My gut tells me this is half the problem . . .
Thanks . .
" Two drives; the original 1.6GB set as D, with the added 6.0GB partitioned into equal chunks (C:\, E:\, and F:\), with 123MB left in the Main C:\ partition. I have a 180MMX CPU w/128MB RAM (Maxxed out for this platform). My swap file is huge; 102+MB residing in the Root directory."
I think your problem is the 123 MB left on your c: drive... this is way too small an area left on your boot drive for W95. Your swap file may be located all over the place and so badly fragmented that your drive is churning all the time. Move some of your data off to the other partitions, boot into safe mode and defrag the c: drive.
Your drive is getting so old that it may be that the sectors are throwing read errors. This could account for the abyssmally slow boot times... continual read errors.