Optimizing the Classic environment
Apr 13, '01 12:00:58PM
Contributed by: Sparky
[Editor's note: Read the following if you're interested in making your Classic environment work as quickly as possible under OS X ... Sparky has some solid thoughts on how to make Classic work better, and I'm sure there are others that could be added to the list.]
ok, since I did several things at once, any one of them could have helped or the combination. What happened is that Classic software that used to take 8 or 9 bounces to start now bounces once and opens immediately! woohoo!
[Read the rest of the article for a step-by-step description of what Sparky changed in Classic...]
Things Sparky changed:
- booted from Classic's system 9.1 folder (I have it alone on its own partition).
- went into control panels and toggled Appletalk OFF.
- Went into apple menu options and toggled OFF hierarchical menus, as well as turning OFF remembering any recent documents, apps, or servers.
- Went into extension manager and duplicated the 9.1 all set, and only added ATM 4.6.1.
- restarted, and REMOVED the entries of all fonts from known font sets...re-added them back in.
- Booted from OSX and rebuilt the classic desktop from within OSX system prefs/classic controls.
- Ran xoptimize to prebind while classic was up.
- Booted from OSX CD and ran disk utility to repair both my OSX partition (now on an HFS+ partition due to good advice I found elsewhere) and my classic partition.
Rebooted, and WHOAAAA.... the speed increase is phenomenal now!
Now, when I open up freehand, for example, which used to take 8 or 9 "bounces", it bounces up once, down once, and immediately enters the splash screen for starting up. Photoshop 5.5 starts even faster now in classic than it does under a normal 9.1 volume.
I just wanted to let you guys know. woohoo!
Sparky the wonderpig
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