I have a Workstation running Windows 98 2nd. This unit was the company owners system. Her computer was running very slowly and the only problem I could find with it was this message on the performance tab in Device Manager:
“Compatibility-mode paging reduces overall system performance.”
“Drive C is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system”
This seems to be a relatively obscure problem and there is not a lot of info on fixing this problem. But it does seriously degrade the system performance.
What I have tried so far. I put the hard drive in this computer in another system and it worked fine. I ordered a new hard drive for this system. After installing, Fdisking and formating the new drive the MS-DOS compatability modeproblem is still with me. The best info I could find for this problem was at: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q130/1/79.ASP
However, none of this seemed to help. Either the settings were correct or the problem cause mentioned inthe article was not present on this system. I did rename the atuoexec.bat and the config.sys files and that did not help.
If anyone has any good fixes for this problem I would appreciate it. My email is: tom@dfwgroup.com.
Thanks
Tom