P.S. Maybe a little "optimization FAQ" is in order?
The best thing to speed up file and directory viewing is to
right click the drive in the drive tree, select edit, and then drive flags.
Check the following for FAT32 drives:
Don't load icons (has the most impact) When checked, FM/2 will use its own icons instead of the eCS/OS2 system icons.
Don't load subjects
Don't load longnames
Slow drive
For NTFS drives, do the same as for the FAT32 drives.
On any drive including HPFS and JFS, check "Don't load icons" to speed up the drive read.
In the settings notebook under the "DirCnrs" tab, check IMMEDIATE UPDATES.
In the settings notebook under the "Monolithic" tab, I also check
INI viewer outside
Arcboxes outside
Viewer outside
Collector outside
This allows these utilities to be used outside the FM/2 window.
I usually check
No space below Tree
to allow the drive drive to use it full space. Once checked, you will have to resize the drive tree to use the full space.
Usually checking or unchecking setting depends on the individual.
One last thing. To install FM/2 utilities, you will need to download the following package from Hobbes and put in the the same location as the FM/2 wpi. Start FM/2 and you will be given the option of installing the utilities. I highly recommend this. Some of the commands in FM/2 rely on these utilities.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/browser/fm2-3-5-9_fm2utils-1-1.zip.
Delete the older version of FM/2 once unzipped. Put my version of FM/2 in the same directory as the utility wpi. Start FM/2 and select the utility package along with FM/2. If you already have the utility package installed, you do not need to install the utilities again.
David