The OS in question was never updated to set things automatically correct. It's from the era where...
'Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...
Men were real men, women were real women, and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. Spirits were brave, men boldly split infinitives that no man had split before. Thus was the Empire forged.
There is a theory that states: "If anyone finds out what the universe is for it will disappear and..." '
You can find some hundred such anomalies in Windows 9x, but what are you going to do about it?
Bob
Win 98, AMD Druon 1300 with IDE and ATAPI compatible devices all around, and no SCSI installed that I am aware of. I ran a Sandra report today, and it had a tip that Windows performance would imrpove if I turned off double buffering. It cited that this is only used for real time SCSI devices, yet it is set on by default.
So, the question is, why is it on by default when most users aren't using SCSI, and what are the potential problems I may face if I do turn it off? Is the performance gain really worth it, after all, double buffering is old technology which was introduced back in DOS days so clearly has a purpose.
Basically, this is one of those things I "accept" as being so, since it has been around almost as long as Babage, to enhance performance, not degrade it.

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