All Posts Tagged With: "Pagefile"
Make Your Hard Drive Run Faster
We spend so much time worrying about the speed of Graphics Cards and Memory, we tend to forget about optimizing one important component of all PCS - the Hard Drive.
These 10 tips will help to speedup your Hard Drives and your file access times. The ten tips are:
1. Disable Short Filenames
2. Name Your Files [...]
Automatically Defragment Your Pagefile
Keeping your pagefile defragmented can provide a major performance boost. One of the best ways of doing this is to creat a separate partition on your hard drive just for your page file, so that it doesn’t get impacted by normal disk usage.
If you are unable to do this then another solution could be to [...]
Use ClearMem To Freeup Windows XP Memory
Although most modern computers have enough memory to run Windows XP properly, the longer you leave PC running without a reboot the more chance there is that old processes and programs you’ve been using are still ‘holding onto’ memory, making less available to other programs.
An easy way to fix this is to install ClearMem. [...]
How To Improve Your Swapfile Performance
If you have more than 256MB of RAM on your PC this tweak will considerably improve your performance. What it does is tell your PC to use every last drop of RAM before using the swap file, which is slower than real RAM.
To enable this tweak is easy. Just follow the steps below:
Go to [...]
29Sep2006 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued

