Possible way to speed up your computer?
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Possible way to speed up your computer?
buddy told me to do this today to increase my operating speed...
He's very sharp, but i don't use enough processing power at home to tell any difference.
go into SYSTEM, and look at the RAM you have.
These page shows i have 1.g (sometimes shown as 1024mgb)
Click on the ADVANCED TAB.
Click on CHANGE for Virtual Memory.
Select CUSTOM SIZE, and input for the Initial Size,
1.5 times the amount of RAM you have (this is shown in Megs, so
1g = 1042meg,
1.5 x 1042 = 1500
and input
3 times the amount of RAM for the MAXIMUM SIZE
3 x 1042 = 3000
click SET.
Ok and OK.
you may have to restart.
He's very sharp, but i don't use enough processing power at home to tell any difference.
go into SYSTEM, and look at the RAM you have.
These page shows i have 1.g (sometimes shown as 1024mgb)
Click on the ADVANCED TAB.
Click on CHANGE for Virtual Memory.
Select CUSTOM SIZE, and input for the Initial Size,
1.5 times the amount of RAM you have (this is shown in Megs, so
1g = 1042meg,
1.5 x 1042 = 1500
and input
3 times the amount of RAM for the MAXIMUM SIZE
3 x 1042 = 3000
click SET.
Ok and OK.
you may have to restart.
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just do what i did mess with the one at work and if it is still working in a few weeks and makes it faster than i will do it to mine at home. But i just did it to the work one and i am thinking that it is faster. i will update more later.
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A computer geek buddy of mine told me something very similar. That just helps with pages and programs popping up faster. Usually at work I'll have 10-12 windows open all at the same time and memory hogging programs (Lotus Notes, Access, Excel) running, so they can get slow to respond.
I'll have to look at the settings that he told me and post back tomorrow.
I'll have to look at the settings that he told me and post back tomorrow.
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I've always set mine so as to maintain one specific size. 1.5 times the amount of physical RAM.
Input the same figure in both min and max.
That way you're not wasting processor time or time having the system constantly evaluating and adjusting the virtual memory size (or Page File pending the OS you're running).
If you're into tweaking your computer, check out TweakTown (look through the list for the different guides available) ~ http://www.tweaktown.com/cat/guides/
Input the same figure in both min and max.
That way you're not wasting processor time or time having the system constantly evaluating and adjusting the virtual memory size (or Page File pending the OS you're running).
If you're into tweaking your computer, check out TweakTown (look through the list for the different guides available) ~ http://www.tweaktown.com/cat/guides/
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The 1.5 gig and 3 gig are pretty much standard for 1 gig of real memory. However a lot of software likes to install crap that starts up and runs even though you're not using the software. Acrobat reader is one in particular. Real Player is another and so on. Unless you know how to disable the crap or you really like the crap and want to leave it in you'll need to increase the physical ram to make up the loss. Otherwise you'll experience massive slowdowns when everytime you want something to start the system has to thrash the hard disk to write out some of the stuff in physical memory to virtual memory which is on the hard disk.
Virtual memory allows more programs to run because it makes your 1 gig of real ram look like a maximum of 4 gigs. But it does it at the expense of making the hard disk work real hard and since the hard disk is several orders of magnitude slower than real ram you can readily see the effect on performance.
In addition, nothing can run directly on the hard disk. The hard disk is storage. IN order to run something it MUST be in real physical ram. The more ram you have the better things run.
Nowadays I don't run anything with less than 1.5 gigs of physical ram and most of my PC's are 2 gigs. (only one is 1.5) My server is 4 gigs and I wish I had more because it runs a lot of crap.
Edwin
Virtual memory allows more programs to run because it makes your 1 gig of real ram look like a maximum of 4 gigs. But it does it at the expense of making the hard disk work real hard and since the hard disk is several orders of magnitude slower than real ram you can readily see the effect on performance.
In addition, nothing can run directly on the hard disk. The hard disk is storage. IN order to run something it MUST be in real physical ram. The more ram you have the better things run.
Nowadays I don't run anything with less than 1.5 gigs of physical ram and most of my PC's are 2 gigs. (only one is 1.5) My server is 4 gigs and I wish I had more because it runs a lot of crap.
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One thing that does help is if you have multiple physical hard disks (not partitions on the same hard disk) to put the paging file on a partition of the least used physical drive. (EG not the one that's used for Windows)
The reason is that the seek time of the hard disks is what actually slows stuff down-instead of letting one hard disk do all the jumping around you can let two of them run longer continuous streams of hdd operation.
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The reason is that the seek time of the hard disks is what actually slows stuff down-instead of letting one hard disk do all the jumping around you can let two of them run longer continuous streams of hdd operation.
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1 GB= 1024 MB , so 256MB is a quarter gigabyte. As long as you don't run too many programs in parallel you should be OK, more RAM would help though. (it's quite like displacement on an engine- there isn't such a thing as too much of it)
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The 1.5 gig and 3 gig are pretty much standard for 1 gig of real memory. However a lot of software likes to install crap that starts up and runs even though you're not using the software. Acrobat reader is one in particular. Real Player is another and so on. Unless you know how to disable the crap or you really like the crap and want to leave it in you'll need to increase the physical ram to make up the loss. Otherwise you'll experience massive slowdowns when everytime you want something to start the system has to thrash the hard disk to write out some of the stuff in physical memory to virtual memory which is on the hard disk.
Virtual memory allows more programs to run because it makes your 1 gig of real ram look like a maximum of 4 gigs. But it does it at the expense of making the hard disk work real hard and since the hard disk is several orders of magnitude slower than real ram you can readily see the effect on performance.
In addition, nothing can run directly on the hard disk. The hard disk is storage. IN order to run something it MUST be in real physical ram. The more ram you have the better things run.
Nowadays I don't run anything with less than 1.5 gigs of physical ram and most of my PC's are 2 gigs. (only one is 1.5) My server is 4 gigs and I wish I had more because it runs a lot of crap.
Edwin
Virtual memory allows more programs to run because it makes your 1 gig of real ram look like a maximum of 4 gigs. But it does it at the expense of making the hard disk work real hard and since the hard disk is several orders of magnitude slower than real ram you can readily see the effect on performance.
In addition, nothing can run directly on the hard disk. The hard disk is storage. IN order to run something it MUST be in real physical ram. The more ram you have the better things run.
Nowadays I don't run anything with less than 1.5 gigs of physical ram and most of my PC's are 2 gigs. (only one is 1.5) My server is 4 gigs and I wish I had more because it runs a lot of crap.
Edwin
