Category: Geeks r Us
I allways wanted to do this but never had a system that would let me, well that would be useable after rebooting, but with my kickin dell laptop and 2 gigs of memory I turned it off last night. Pretty cool stuff, even with jaws, outlook IE, and a few other things open I still had 65% of my memory free!
Does it really make that much of a noticeable difference?
I'd be tempted to say that with 2 gb of ram and xp it'd be fastish anyway so you wouldn't kno.
I'd be interested in seeing how this worked on some of my older computers that have 512 mb of ram or under.
BEN.
how did you turn it off? would like to try on my toshiba laptop, running 512.
Looking forward to this answer as well.
You don't want to turn off the paging file with anything less than about 1.5G memory, as you'd get a ,.ot of instability, so that said, all you 512-ish people, don't do it unless you can get somebody to read Safe Mode for you.
1: highlight My Computer, and press Alt-Enter on it. You can also hit Windows-Break, and get to the same place.
2: Control-Tab to the Advanced Settings tab, and press the Performance settings button.
Therein, you want to go to the second tab, Advanced.
3: In this dialogue, you will see a
Virtual Memory button. Press it, and the option you want is in there. A few presses of OK buttons, a restart, and depending how much memory you have, you'll be great, or you'll have to go into Safe Mode and reset it.
If you mess your systems up by doing this, it's on you, not me. I warned you, so leave the clunky old computers out of it!
amen, that's what I ment when I said I've not been able to do this before.
If you want a slow, if it even boots machine you can try with 512, but It's not adviseable.
thank god i red ^ before i tryed it then.
Must be pretty cool to be able to do this, but for those of you that run with anything under the 1.5 gb mark then try using something like nlite to take parts of xp out that you don't need.
i did it on my laptop, running at 3.2 ghz and 512 ram. it has certainly given the machine an edge, that wasn't there before