Since I found out that Windows tries several paths to load DLL's when any application is loaded (tool used: process explorer from
www.sysinternals.com), I'm going to move most of the system DLL's to a pcmcia flash drive. The system should boot faster and also run faster.
After having started first experiments, I'm not successful until now. There seems to be no possibility to explicitly specify a "first seek" path, in this case e:\windows\system.
When windows does perform automatic path seeking, it seeks (e.g) first in the application directory, then the desktop directory and then the system directory.
Anybody having an idea? Probably I should use a sort of technique of mapping a directory from the flash drive into a corresponding C:\drive directory (when such is possible), or even specify the flash drive as a sort of cache extension.
(Note: target is Windows 98 )