Free up Ram Improve performance

[Iby]

Hi, does anyone know any other ways to free up Ram and improve my
performance. What does performance do for Windows XP anyways? I have 512mb
DDr ram but still I like to use most of it for background tasks and I
already tried going to properties advanced system performance and
un-checking everything but then it looks like 2000 settings and looked
messed up is there any other ways?. Thanks

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Iby Omidakhsh

[Len Segal]

Iby,

WinXP is designed to manage memory a lot more efficiently than what most
users could do manually.

Best solution is to let the OS manage the memory automatically.

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"Iby" > wrote in message
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> Hi, does anyone know any other ways to free up Ram and improve my
> performance. What does performance do for Windows XP anyways? I have 512mb
> DDr ram but still I like to use most of it for background tasks and I
> already tried going to properties advanced system performance and
> un-checking everything but then it looks like 2000 settings and looked
> messed up is there any other ways?. Thanks
>
> --
> Iby Omidakhsh
>
>


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[Len Segal]

Iby,

WinXP is designed to manage memory a lot more efficiently than what most
users could do manually.

Best solution is to let the OS manage the memory automatically.

--

Regards,
Len Segal, MCP
Microsoft - MVP
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"Iby" > wrote in message
...
> Hi, does anyone know any other ways to free up Ram and improve my
> performance. What does performance do for Windows XP anyways? I have 512mb
> DDr ram but still I like to use most of it for background tasks and I
> already tried going to properties advanced system performance and
> un-checking everything but then it looks like 2000 settings and looked
> messed up is there any other ways?. Thanks
>
> --
> Iby Omidakhsh
>
>


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[Ken Blake]

In , Iby wrote:

> Hi, does anyone know any other ways to free up Ram and improve
my
> performance.



Freeing RAM does not improve performance. Freeing RAM is not a
worthwhile objective. Windows works hard to find some use for
all (or almost all) your RAM all the time. That's good, not bad;
free RAM is wasted RAM.

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[Ken Blake]

In , Iby wrote:

> Hi, does anyone know any other ways to free up Ram and improve
my
> performance.



Freeing RAM does not improve performance. Freeing RAM is not a
worthwhile objective. Windows works hard to find some use for
all (or almost all) your RAM all the time. That's good, not bad;
free RAM is wasted RAM.

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Ken Blake
Please reply to the newsgroup

[Ron Martell]

"Iby" > wrote:

>Hi, does anyone know any other ways to free up Ram and improve my
>performance. What does performance do for Windows XP anyways? I have 512mb
>DDr ram but still I like to use most of it for background tasks and I
>already tried going to properties advanced system performance and
>un-checking everything but then it looks like 2000 settings and looked
>messed up is there any other ways?. Thanks

The critical factor with RAM and performance is the actual usage of the
paging file. That is where memory pages have been written out from RAM to
the paging file and then dropped from RAM so as to free up that RAM for
other purposes.

And before it has gotten to that point the Memory Manager will have also
reduced the size of the disk cache, which also has some adverse effects on
performance.

So if there is any significant amount of actual paging file usage then
that is an indication that either installing more RAM or running fewer
applications at the same time would have a beneficial result.

There is a utility which can measure this actual page file usage. It can
be downloaded from http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm or
from http://billsway.com/notes_public/WinXP_Tweaks/

Note that there is probably about 50 mb of stuff that Windows likes to
keep loaded in RAM if there is room but which can be moved to the page
file and will rarely be haved to be brought back again under normal
circumstances. So 50 mb of actual page file usage is probably the
threshold for gauging the potential benefits of adding more RAM, at least
insofar as getting enough of a performance boost for it to be readily
noticeable.

Good luck



Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

[Ron Martell]

"Iby" > wrote:

>Hi, does anyone know any other ways to free up Ram and improve my
>performance. What does performance do for Windows XP anyways? I have 512mb
>DDr ram but still I like to use most of it for background tasks and I
>already tried going to properties advanced system performance and
>un-checking everything but then it looks like 2000 settings and looked
>messed up is there any other ways?. Thanks

The critical factor with RAM and performance is the actual usage of the
paging file. That is where memory pages have been written out from RAM to
the paging file and then dropped from RAM so as to free up that RAM for
other purposes.

And before it has gotten to that point the Memory Manager will have also
reduced the size of the disk cache, which also has some adverse effects on
performance.

So if there is any significant amount of actual paging file usage then
that is an indication that either installing more RAM or running fewer
applications at the same time would have a beneficial result.

There is a utility which can measure this actual page file usage. It can
be downloaded from http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm or
from http://billsway.com/notes_public/WinXP_Tweaks/

Note that there is probably about 50 mb of stuff that Windows likes to
keep loaded in RAM if there is room but which can be moved to the page
file and will rarely be haved to be brought back again under normal
circumstances. So 50 mb of actual page file usage is probably the
threshold for gauging the potential benefits of adding more RAM, at least
insofar as getting enough of a performance boost for it to be readily
noticeable.

Good luck



Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."