Not Loading DriveSpace or DoubleSpace Drivers

Even if you never use DriveSpace or DblSpace, Win95 automatically loads the drivers. While the drivers are not huge, they do consume some resources. To keep Win95 from loading them all you need to do is:

1. Find the MSDOS.SYS file in the root directory of your boot drive.
2. Right click on the file, clear the read-only attribute then edit the file.
3. Add these two lines to the Options section.
4. Dblspace=0
5. Drvspace=0
6. Be sure to save the changes, reset the read-only attribute, then reboot.

This does save a significant amount of memory but more importantly, it will reduce the number of threads running in the background.