The Windows folder

[Ward]

Resco Explorer takes quite some time to produce a file listing when navigating to the \Windows folder. Related to the frequent concurrent access by the OS?

Anyway, I have many many files - most are bmp, gif or HTML files. Now I rarely use the help so can I move these files out of the Windows folder and give Resco Explorer a little relief or will it have no effect?

I've done it with WM2003SE but to no discernable effect, mind you, I did save nearly a megabyte...

[Ward]

Well, I've moved the lot to my SD and zipped them up. The zip is 940Kb on maximum compression and navigating the \Windows folder is much faster.

[astage]

Not really tried, but discovered that the help files apparently need to be in the device "\Windows" folder. Tried moving a couple to the Storage Card "\Windows" but they wouldn't open when called.

[Carnivor]

Thats because "\Storage Card\Windows" aint the same path as "\windows"



\ <----root
\windows
\Storage Card\Windows <--its an extra folder in depth.


if you get what i mean :?

[oltp]

Hi,

Which help fikes do you want to move? The .htm in \windows or the .lnk in \windows\help, the last are the shorts & should be changed to point to the new location. Further you can add \storage\windows to the systempath registry value.

And these two values speeded up my WM2003SE device noticibly, especially file browsing:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\Cac heSize=4096
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\Ena bleCache=0x1(1)

Cheers, M