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Increase HDD speed with disk cache

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Description of how a disk cache will help HDD performance, and how to activate the smart drive disk cache.

Load drivers in high memory to free conventional memory

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How load drivers in the upper memory block to free conventional memory.

Load environment in high memory with DOS 7.0

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Load DOS environment in the upper memory block to free conventional memory.

Emulate expanded memory (EMS) by using extended memory (XMS)

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Description of the Expanded Memory Specification (EMS) and how to use Emm386.exe to emulate XMS as EMS.

Open access to the Upper Memory Block (UMB)

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Description of the Upper Memory Block (UMB) and how to open access to it with Emm386.exe.

Open access to the High Memory Area (HMA)

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Description of the High Memory Area (HMA), and how to open access to it with Himen.sys to free conventional memory.