Windows XP Tweak Reveled: Speed Up System Performance

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If your machine has 512MB or more of RAM, you can boost its
performance by setting it up to keep the core system in RAM
and deal less with (slower) hard disk.Watch the video for
instructions.

  1. By: PCtricksNtips
  2. Categories Wheels & Wings, News & Events
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  4. Added :23-Mar-07
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  • Not recommended

    512mb is too little to enable this setting. It would hog too much memory for Windows and give too little for programs. Recommend this setting only when you have more than 512mb. If you have 3 gig and up, recommending disabling the paging file too.

    By Doug_D 1174732978
    • Agreed this is a Myth

      These stupid registry hack Myths will never die.

      http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html#Optimization

      By Mastertech 1175598792
  • If

    you play games or run programs that consume lots of memory, turning off virtual memory will be a disaster!

    By EPPE 1174743436
    • Oh yeah

      This tweak is awesome! if you do nothing but browse the net on your machine...

      For those of use who actually USE the machine for anything useful this destroys performance.

      By Doomsday Dragon 1174787270
  • No Registry Edit, Just set the Option.

    You can do the same this via going the following route.

    My Computer --> Click Properties
    Choose the Advance Tab --> Performance Settings
    On Performance Options --> Choose the Advance tab
    In the group Virtual Memory choose the change button.
    Choose No Paging file. And click on the Set Button.

    By wsss 1174705825
    • Wrong wsss.

      He's not trying to disable the page file here.

      By Doug_D 1174733181
    • Bad Advice

      This is bad advice and will reduce performance.

      By Mastertech 1175598738
  • not really good idea

    This will definetly help for users who have at least 1, but rather 2 or more GB of memory. Beside, some programs cannot run without a page file present.
    It's better to change the size of the page file to a smaller one, or to a fix size.

    By home user 1174834784
  • :-??

    i already have 1 so for me is more useful this guy comment : No Registry Edit, Just set the Option.
    You can do the same this via going the following route.

    My Computer --> Click Properties
    Choose the Advance Tab --> Performance Settings
    On Performance Options --> Choose the Advance tab
    In the group Virtual Memory choose the change button.
    Choose No Paging file. And click on the Set Button.

    10q man !

    By dansobolanu 1174727844
    • WORST ADVICE EVER

      That has NOTHING to do with the registry setting "disable paging executive". Disabling the Paging File is idiotic. Virtual Memory is always in use and it is NOT the paging file. Disabling the Paging File will REDUCE performance. Not to mention it will still be used check the task manager = performance tab. Anyone who says otherwise has not idea how the Windows Memory System works:

      "Virtual Memory is always in use, even when the memory required by all running processes does not exceed the amount of RAM installed on the system"

      NEVER DISABLE THE PAGING FILE!!!

      http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html#Optimization

      By Mastertech 1175024531
    • Think before you type

      "virtual memory" refers to the virtual space that is allocated on startup (of the operating system). This may be a combination of physical memory and a paging file. True it is always used, but when there is no paging file, the virtual memory is only physical memory.

      I never use a paging file. Ram is very cheap right now and it is impossible for me to fill up 4GB, ever. Paging files were created when the price difference between ram and hard disk was gigantic.

      Think about it this way, when you load a program, it reads it to the hard disc, moves it to virtual memory, and is read from virtual memory. If you are using paging files, you are simultaneously reading a program from your hard drive, coping data to another part of the hard drive, and once again reading it from that hard drive. That is three times you have to read off a slow disc. Using no paging, the file is read off the hard drive, stored on physical memory and read off physical memory. Only one read from a slow disk has occurred. The operation without a paging file is three times quicker.

      The myth about windows only using paging when necessary is false. Windows uses the paging file as if it was physical memory. Take a look at the performance tab and see for yourself that about half of your applications are running on the paging file. No wonder why that program was taking so long to load...

      There is only one flaw to using no paging file, that is with error recovery. When windows crashes, it needs to store the data about the crash somewhere so it knows what happened to send to microsoft for information. This is somewhat important, so I recommend using a paging file of 200MB (the minimum required for error recovery). This way the virtual memory will not be used for your applications, rather only in error recovery.

      By cs85b 1221881232
    • Well.

      Some people like it the hard way. This isn't the first "tweak secret" revealed in here. Some of the others are (unintentionally) funny actually...

      By billgatesmom 1174785101

  • good video

    By hole3162 1177550632
  • Don't bother...

    Lol this is an ok setting for a kiosk that is net browsing only.

    By Ziggenx 1175132978
  • hey cool

    guys is it true - anyone tried it

    By ViewtifulIsh 1174657288
    • sounds like

      a regular geek feast

      By dax magavanaki 1180582728
  • thanks

    my computer was running slower than an obese guy at a healthy food cook off now its like the fat guys is at the pie fair .. thanks

    By jmann0893 1174846415
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