Is there a limit to the Max Cached Icons

[Marztabator]

At the moment I have it set to 32768. Does XP take notice of this or not? Am I asking for too much here?

[Marztabator]

*Sigh* You CAN'T be all totally clueless on this one...

[Aaron]

Marztabator, if nobody has replied, it means nobody knows or is willing to experiment with the icon cache settings.

[Aaron]

Did a bit of research on google. It appears the max size you can set is 4096, which is 4.096 MB (or 4.1MB to round it off).

You won't need to adjust this value unless you start getting corrupted icons.

[Spheris]

There is no known upper limit in the icon cache mechanism in xp (although 2k has a threshold of 4096)

However, there is the same problem with it as caching too many fonts within a system in that it can and will go into memory starvation dependent on loading of the core kernal and available memory to processes

rule of thumb 1024 icons per 512 mb of memory is best practice.

Good luck maz

[Marztabator]

There is no known upper limit in the icon cache mechanism in xp (although 2k has a threshold of 4096)

However, there is the same problem with it as caching too many fonts within a system in that it can and will go into memory starvation dependent on loading of the core kernal and available memory to processes

rule of thumb 1024 icons per 512 mb of memory is best practice.

Good luck maz

Thanks to you two for finally replying to this (), but Spheris, could you rephrase that last bit of advice please? Do you mean 512x1024? It can't be "per" 512Mb, since I have just that - 512Mb!

[Spheris]

roughly it means 2mb per 512

[Marztabator]

512 icons per 2Mb of memory???

[Spheris]

2mb per 512 mb

[Marztabator]

2mb per 512 mb

*wonders how one can work that out on a calculator*

Excuse me if I sound like I'm really thick as sh*t.

[Spheris]

your fine

set the cache size to 2mb for each 512 mb available memory

no calc required

[Marztabator]

How exactly do I change my cache size in XP? I don't feel very familiar to this practice.