RE: [PCTECH] Constant windows pointer switching between arrow & h ourglass

["John Brandt Sr." <pgmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No. No reason at all. I have a few systems I do that with 
where I don't care that it takes an extra minute to boot.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Bale [mailto:dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 9:59 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Constant windows pointer switching between arrow &
hourglass


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / John Brandt Sr.
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 10:38 AM
>
> Dan,
> To make sure it is a program problem, modify your autoexec.bat file for
> one reboot. Add the following:
> CD \windows
> attrib -s -r -h *.swp
> del *.swp
> After you reboot, either comment them out with a REM statement before each
> line, or remove it entirely. Defrag your drive(s). If your paging file
> gets too large or too fragmented in Win98/98SE, it can cause your system
> to thrash itself trying to find the fragments of the swap file.

I don't think this is the problem since I created a small partition which
contains only the swap file.  But I'll give this a go anyway.  Any reason
why you couldn't just delete the swap file at every reboot?

db

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