If you are using Windows 3.1, you should do everything that you can to increase your system performance. One trick is to prune unneeded sections from your .INI files. Close Windows and get to a DOS prompt. Edit the .INI files in your C:\WINDOWS directory.

Every section of an .INI file starts with a bracket, the section name, and a closing bracket. For example, the SYSTEM.INI file has a "[boot]" section, a "[drivers] " section, an "[mci]" section, and so forth. Underneath the section names you will find lines in the form "name=value." If you see a section name followed immediately by another section name (or a blank line or two and then the next section name), you probably can safely delete the first section name of the two as it is unused. The smaller your .INI files are, the less memory and time Windows will have to devote to loading and evaluating the entries.

Before doing this tip, make sure you backup your files in case you make mistakes, causing Windows 3.1 not to boot!

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