Running a Tight Ship

If you're reading this chapter, you probably are the kind of user or administrator who is interested in keeping your Windows workstation spinning like a top. Or maybe you are responsible for maintaining a myriad of computers on the company LAN, and your charges insist that you do the same for them. You're also likely to be looking for ways to boost the performance of your system by tweaking system software.

In this chapter, I'll start by discussing some of the techniques that will best serve you in the process of improving system stability and performance. The rest of the chapter deals with configuration of the various program application subsystemsWin32, Win16, and DOS.