Memory Performance Tweak

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August 1st, 2004 Leave a comment Visited 93 times, 1 so far today

These Settings will fine tune your systems memory

management -atleast 256MB of ram recccomended

go to start runregedit -and then to the following key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory Management

1.DisablePagingExecutive -double click it and in the decimal put a 1 – this allows XP to keep data in memory now instead of paging sections of ram to harddrive yeilds faster performance.

2.LargeSystemCache- double click it and change the decimal to 1 -this allows XP Kernal to Run in memory improves system performance alot

3.create a new dword and name it IOPageLockLimit – double click it and set the value in hex – 4000 if you have 128MB of ram or set it to 10000 if you have 256MB set it to 40000 if you have more than 512MB of ram -this tweak will speed up your disckcache

Reboot and watch your system fly.





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  1. #
    Corey Burton
    February 20th, 2005 at 1:54 am

    You have givin an incomplete registry key.
    HKeyLocalMachine => System => CurrentControlSet001 =>Control=>
    Memory Management

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    Ray Range
    February 23rd, 2005 at 7:23 am

    how do you create a new dword

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    Kelvin
    April 18th, 2005 at 12:31 pm

    Thanks this part was VERY HELPFUL.

    3.create a new dword and name it IOPageLockLimit – double click it and set the value in hex – 4000 if you have 128MB of ram or set it to 10000 if you have 256MB set it to 40000 if you have more than 512MB of ram -this tweak will speed up your disckcache

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    animecoder
    June 7th, 2005 at 8:16 am

    Wow very nice my system is flying…literally.

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  5. #
    Joe
    January 26th, 2006 at 7:56 am

    Be carefull with the LargeSystemCache switch. If you run a server it is very usefull however if, like myself, you have a gaming machine with lots of memory and use AGP Apature cache this can decrease performance greatly, as Microsoft mentions here:

    “When you enable System cache mode on a computer that uses Unified Memory Architecture-based video hardware or AGP, you may experience a severe and random decrease in performance. The Drivers for these components consume a large part of the remaining application memory when they are initialized during startup.”

    Otherwise the rest of the suggestions here are great!

    ~j

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    Name
    June 20th, 2006 at 4:05 am
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    Larry Miller
    January 15th, 2009 at 10:06 pm

    DON’T BOTHER
    The descriptions of these settings contain gross errors. They are best ignored.

    DisablePagingExecutive:
    This effects only a small portion of the Kernek. If you have. With a reasonable amount of RAM the kernel will hardley ever be paged out anyway.

    LargeSystemCache:
    As Microsoft clearly states, this is for servers only. For general use it will almost always be a bad thing. It can also cause severe problems with some common hardware configurations.

    IOPageLockLimit:
    This does absolutely dothing in XP. Support for this setting was removed as of Windows 2000 SP1. It has never been supported on any version of XP or Vista.

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