With RAM prices dropping so low ( I saw 256 MB SDRAM for $34 in COMPUSA on
Jan 2nd,2002), more and more people are adding RAM to their computer. This
is the best upgrade I would suggested to anyone. Well if you have 512MB or
768 MB or a whopping 1GB of RAM, you do not need a swap file (SWAP FILE is
the concept of old dayw when RAM was too costly). Try this out. Go to My
Computer and right click on properties and get into System Properties
window. Go to Advanced tab and click on the Settings button for Performance
group, click again on advanced tab and then click on change and choose NO
SWAP FILE. I think you would see an improvement. If you don't like the
change, follow the same steps and change SWAP FILE size to whatever you
want (typically 1.5 * physical RAM). Also you can further gain by applying
following changes in registry. Open Registry by going to START-RUN and
typing REGEDIT. Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory
Management and look for DisablePagingExecutive. On my computer default
value is 0. Set it to 1. This will stop paging act as well.
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