SYSTEM.INI TWEAKS
SYSTEM.INI is a Windows 9x/3.xx INItialization text file and resides in your Windows directory/folder.
First,
let's see the Windows .INI files editing rules:- You can replace "no" with "0", "off" or "false". Similarly, "yes" has the same effect as "1",
"on" or "true" (but don't type the quotes). This applies ONLY to
<boolean> entries (yes/no, 1/0, on/off, true/false), NOT to numeric (decimal/hex) or string
(text) values (i.e. DMABufferSize = 0 - 64 KB), which have different measuring units, ranges or
characters (exemplified below).
- Windows loads its built-in/default values (shown below) for all
.INI settings that are not present.
- All Windows .INI lines are case insensitive.
- You can
comment (remark, disable) any Windows .INI entry (instead of deleting it) by preceeding it with a
semicolon (;). Example:
32BitDiskAccess=ON - Windows .INI file
maximum allowed size is 64 KB, which is an annoying limitation. Anything above that is not
processed. :(
- You need to restart Windows every time after modifying ANY System.ini
settings!
- CAUTION: BACKUP your .INI files BEFORE making ANY changes!
- If you don't know
what these lines do, YOU MUST READ your Windows help files/documents/manuals BEFORE altering ANY configuration files,
and BEWARE that if you enter invalid values you may experience data loss and/or unexpected machine lockups
!!!
The following are helpful lines to add/modify (using Notepad or Sysedit for editing) under the [386enh] section of
your SYSTEM.INI, valid for ALL Windows 9x/3.xx releases if not specified otherwise.
And now that we've cleared it all up,
let's have some fun...
32BitDiskAccess=ON
COMBoostTime=1
COMxBuffer=1024
COMxProtocol=
COMIrqSharing=ON
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
DMABufferSize=64
DualDisplay=on
EMMExclude=A000-FFFF
HardDiskDMABuffer=32
InitPS2MouseAtExit=off
IRQ9Global=
onKeyBoostTime=0.1
LocalLoadHigh=1
MaxBPs=1024
MaxPagingFileSize=xxxxxx
MinPagingFileSize=xxxxxx
MessageBackColor=8
MessageTextColor=C
MinSPs=4
MinTimeSlice=40
PageBuffers=32
PagingDrive=X:
PagingFile=X:\PATH\FILENAME.EXT
SyncTime=on
TrapTimerPorts=off
VGAMonoText=off
WindowUpdateTime=200