Article: Q82730
Product(s): Microsoft Windows 95.x Retail Product
Version(s): WINDOWS:3.1,3.11
Operating System(s):
Keyword(s):
Last Modified: 10-OCT-1999
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows versions 3.1, 3.11
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SUMMARY
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After starting the Microsoft Windows operating system version 3.1 on a machine
with less than 4 megabytes (MB) of available RAM or loading several Windows
applications in the Startup group, Windows accesses the hard drive for a few
seconds.
Windows is doing two things to make your applications run faster:
- All segments from the boot-time modules (Kernel, User, GDI, the display
driver, and so on) are loaded into memory if there is enough free physical
memory to hold the segments. This speeds up the loading of applications that
require these segments.
- All unlocked virtual memory is written to the paging swap file. This allows
Windows to quickly discard memory because the contents have already been
written to the paging swap file.
Note: This disk activity does not prevent you from doing other tasks. All of
these operations are done during "idle" system time. Applications respond
normally while this disk activity is in progress.
This behavior does not change if you enable or disable 32-bit disk access.
Additional query words: 3.10 swapfile temporary permanent
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Keywords :
Technology : kbWin3xSearch kbZNotKeyword3 kbWin310 kbWin311
Version : WINDOWS:3.1,3.11
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