Fine Tune System Memory

Time Required: 1 Minute, 5 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 15 Minutes

Notes: This is suggested for systems with 512 MB of RAM or more. Must be familiar with the Windows registry.

Warnings: This is dangerous if you do not know what you are doing. I do not take responsibility for anything that you do to your computer that harms it or any files on it in any way.

Written By: Meehowski

Edited By: Max Feinstein

How to do it:

• Open Regedit (go to start > run and type in regedit and press enter)
• You will now have to open the following menus in the left pane of Regedit. Click the + sign, not the name. (see the picture below).
• Navigate to the following folder:
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/Memory Management
• Double-click "DisablePagingExecutive".
• Change it's value to 1.
• Click OK.
• Note: This allows XP to keep data in memory now instead of paging sections of ram to harddrive yeilds faster performance.
• Double-click "LargeSystemCache".
• Change it's value to 1.
• Click OK.
• Note: This allows XP Kernel to run in memory and improves system performance a lot.
• Close regedit.
• Reboot.

<IMG alt="" src="http://maxf.org/modules/ContentExpress/img_repository/regedit.JPG" align=middle border=0>

Regedit's left-hand pane.