- typical role of this computer
- Posted by ollyollyoxenfree on February 15th, 2004
I just recently replaced my old hard drive and installed win98se. When I go to control panel/system/performane/file system it says typical role of this computer is network server. There isn't a reason for it to be left on network server is there? I changed it to desktop computer/rebooted without any problems. Why does Windows have it set there.
- Posted by Richard G. Harper on February 15th, 2004
Who knows how it got set there? But no, there's no reason (or compelling
advantage) to set it there. The desktop setting is just fine.
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this computer is network server. There isn't a reason for it to be left on
network server is there? I changed it to desktop computer/rebooted without
any problems. Why does Windows have it set there.
- Posted by Don Phillipson on February 15th, 2004
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this computer is network server. There isn't a reason for it to be left on
network server is there? I changed it to desktop computer/rebooted without
any problems. Why does Windows have it set there?
This menu offers only three options:
Desktop PC
Mobile/docking system
Network Server
and users can select whatever is appropriate,
exactly as you did. The Win98 installation
process probably does not select any one
option by default: but by default probably
must assign one of the three options (which
the user is free to change.)
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- Posted by Curt Christianson on February 15th, 2004
I too have my computer set for "network server". According to one of the
MS-MVP's, (I can't remember which), that was written back when most
computers did not have the amount of RAM we have today.
If I remember correctly, the recommendation was, if you have 32MB of RAM or
more, change the role of this computer to "network server".
I'll try to find the source of that for you.
Curt
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this computer is network server. There isn't a reason for it to be left on
network server is there? I changed it to desktop computer/rebooted without
any problems. Why does Windows have it set there.
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- Posted by Curt Christianson on February 15th, 2004
See here, almost the bottom of the page:
http://www.aumha.org/a/health.htm
Curt
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- Posted by LuckyStrike on February 15th, 2004
Yeah Curt, I remember having seen that "somewhere" before too. Thanks for
recollecting it, and reminding me who /where that was. ;-))
I wonder if it would make any diff?. J.E. simply says "...couldn't hurt".
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- Posted by Richard G. Harper on February 15th, 2004
It won't make a major difference in the performance of the system. The
"tweaks" it makes are very small ones and not anything that you'll notice.
But it won't hurt to set it either.
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- Posted by Curt Christianson on February 15th, 2004
You're welcome Lucky,
As Richard said, you probably won't notice the difference, but on a system
as antiquated as mine, I can use all the tweaks I can get! <s>
Curt
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- Posted by LuckyStrike on February 15th, 2004
...."to set or not to set...*that* is the (rhetorical) question." If it's not
noticeable, why bother?
Thanks Richard.
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- Posted by LuckyStrike on February 15th, 2004
10-4 Curt; I dig what you mean.
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- Posted by Curt Christianson on February 15th, 2004
"Rodger-Dodger" Lucky,
"dig", I like that, it's kind of groovy!
;-)
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- Posted by Richard G. Harper on February 16th, 2004
For early Win95/98 PCs (those with 16mb to 32mb of memory and small, slow
hard drives) it would make a difference if the Windows 98 PC was being used
as a file and print server. It made small increases in the sizes of several
caches for file names, path names and so on.
Given today's environment (fast hard drives, lots of memory) there's no real
benefit to be obtained by setting it. Even if the file or path name Windows
needs isn't in the teeny-tiny name cache or path cache the faster hard drive
means you won't notice the difference.
Here's the technical skinny if you really want to know:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;140679
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- Posted by LuckyStrike on February 16th, 2004
Thanks Richard; that does serve to explain it all rather handily. I if hang
around long enough I will learn something before either W98 or myself go the
way of the Dinosaur. ;-)
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- Posted by PCR on February 16th, 2004
"Windows 98 Secrets" (Livingston/Straub), p. 1039, says it governs how
fast Windows 98 may display file names & folders...
"If you choose Network Server, Vcache caches 64 directory paths and 2729
filenames in memory. If you choose Desktop Computer, it caches 32 paths
and 677 files. The Desktop Computer setting uses 10K of memory as cache
and the Network Server setting uses 40K. You can most likely spare the
additional 30K to speed up access to your files and folders."
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| I just recently replaced my old hard drive and installed win98se.
When I go to control panel/system/performane/file system it says typical
role of this computer is network server. There isn't a reason for it to
be left on network server is there? I changed it to desktop
computer/rebooted without any problems. Why does Windows have it set
there.
- Posted by cquirke (MVP Win9x) on February 17th, 2004
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:00:57 -0600, "Curt Christianson"
Generally good advice, that page.
This went about balancing RAM use between disk caching and programs; I
think "network server" was better for multitasking. But I also
remember a bug where these settings werer reversed in some versions of
Windows - so in essence, you may be choosing "network server"
specifically to avoid using "network server" settings :-)
I never found a need to fiddle with this.
Going back to that advice page: I'd only consider moving to NT on
studly hardware - say, late-era Win98SE with double the normal RAM for
that time, something like 500MHz and 128M as a minimum.
There's more detail to quality kit than throwing money at brand names,
tho I understand the author wanted to keep it simple. Know your
specs, use those as your baseline, be aware of known-awful brands, as
well as particularly good brands (if any) for a particular component
category. As to WinModems, they work well if recent, and used within
a system with enough muscle (500MHz+). Same goes for modern PCI sound
cards, which are also generally "soft".
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