Installing Extra RAM

Hi,

If I install extra RAM into my PC, am I required to change any settings
under XP or will the system automatically adjust anyway?

Cheers.

Alan

The computer will do everything for you. No settings for you to adjust.
Just be certain that the RAM you are purchasing is designed to work with
your computer. The major RAM vendors (e.g., Crucial, Kingston, Corsair)
have RAM selectors on their web sites that make it easy to find the
right memory for your computer.

This next part is just my opinion: You are better off to purchase RAM
from the better RAM vendors, instead of whatever is on sale this week at
Staples or Best Buy etc.

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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Hudster wrote:
Hi,

If I install extra RAM into my PC, am I required to change any settings
under XP or will the system automatically adjust anyway?

Cheers.

Alan

Leonard,

Purchased it from Crucial and it seems to be working OK, thanks for the help.

Alan

"Leonard Grey" wrote:

The computer will do everything for you. No settings for you to adjust.
Just be certain that the RAM you are purchasing is designed to work with
your computer. The major RAM vendors (e.g., Crucial, Kingston, Corsair)
have RAM selectors on their web sites that make it easy to find the
right memory for your computer.

This next part is just my opinion: You are better off to purchase RAM
from the better RAM vendors, instead of whatever is on sale this week at
Staples or Best Buy etc.

---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Hudster wrote:
Hi,

If I install extra RAM into my PC, am I required to change any settings
under XP or will the system automatically adjust anyway?

Cheers.

Alan

Go to Control Panel System Performance Settings Advanced tab, at the
bottom under virtual memory click the "Change" button, select "System
Managed", then click "Set", this will properly set your swapfile for the
memory increase. XP defaults to a fixed value during installation.

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"Hudster" wrote in message
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Hi,

If I install extra RAM into my PC, am I required to change any settings
under XP or will the system automatically adjust anyway?

Cheers.

Alan

Alan

No manual adjustments required. If the system recognises the new RAM it
is automatic.

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Gerry
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Hudster wrote:
Hi,

If I install extra RAM into my PC, am I required to change any
settings under XP or will the system automatically adjust anyway?

Cheers.

Alan

Except for the swapfile, it will be set for the pre upgrade amount of RAM as
I said in my post.

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"Gerry" wrote in message
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Alan

No manual adjustments required. If the system recognises the new RAM it is
automatic.

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Gerry
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Hudster wrote:
Hi,

If I install extra RAM into my PC, am I required to change any
settings under XP or will the system automatically adjust anyway?

Cheers.

Alan

The correct setting for the page file is almost always 'system managed
size' and that's where you should have it.

If you set the size of the page file too low you will interfere with
your computer's performance.

If you set the size of the page file too high your performance will not
be affected, since Windows only uses the amount of virtual memory it
needs regardless of how much you give it to work with, but you will be
wasting disk space.

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David B. wrote:
Except for the swapfile, it will be set for the pre upgrade amount of
RAM as I said in my post.

Umm, that's what I said, XP by default is set to a fixed size.

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"Leonard Grey" wrote in message
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The correct setting for the page file is almost always 'system managed
size' and that's where you should have it.

Yes. Semantics, probably. XP by default is set to system managed size.
So, for example, when you add that top-shelf Crucial RAM the operating
system will take care of adjusting the size of the page file.

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David B. wrote:
Umm, that's what I said, XP by default is set to a fixed size.

David,

Thanks mate, have changed as you have suggested.

Alan

"David B." wrote:

Except for the swapfile, it will be set for the pre upgrade amount of RAM as
I said in my post.

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"Gerry" wrote in message
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Alan

No manual adjustments required. If the system recognises the new RAM it is
automatic.

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Gerry
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Hudster wrote:
Hi,

If I install extra RAM into my PC, am I required to change any
settings under XP or will the system automatically adjust anyway?

Cheers.

Alan

David

The answer to the question is as I said. Changing the size of the
pagefile is optional and not absolutely necessary. Arguably if you
substantially increase RAM then less pagefile is needed.

See the Section headed How large should the pagefile be?
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm


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David B. wrote:
Except for the swapfile, it will be set for the pre upgrade amount of
RAM as I said in my post.


"Gerry" wrote in message
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Alan

No manual adjustments required. If the system recognises the new RAM
it is automatic.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Hudster wrote:
Hi,

If I install extra RAM into my PC, am I required to change any
settings under XP or will the system automatically adjust anyway?

Cheers.

Alan

Gerry,

Have checked and it has recognised, cheers.

Alan

"Gerry" wrote:

Alan

No manual adjustments required. If the system recognises the new RAM it
is automatic.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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Hudster wrote:
Hi,

If I install extra RAM into my PC, am I required to change any
settings under XP or will the system automatically adjust anyway?

Cheers.

Alan

"Hudster" wrote in message
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Hi,

If I install extra RAM into my PC, am I required to change any settings
under XP or will the system automatically adjust anyway?

Cheers.

Alan

David B. is correct. What I've found is you have to do a reboot/cold boot
for the swapfile change to take effect.
Dave

Dave

Your point is correct but the point David B and Leonard were at
loggerheads over was a different point. A bit of a pointless debate
because the pagefile sizing assumptions by Microsoft were, with the
advent of larger drives, demonstrably wrong. The late Alex Nichol
pointed this out in his still relevant Article in 2004.
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

Adding RAM does not automatically mean you need to increase the pagefile
size. A myth propagated by the original Microsoft programmers when they
created the virtual memory management set up for Windows XP. They
haven't even corrected the Knowledge Base Article put out at the time of
the Windows XP launch.

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Lil' Dave wrote:
"Hudster" wrote in message
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Hi,

If I install extra RAM into my PC, am I required to change any
settings under XP or will the system automatically adjust anyway?

Cheers.

Alan

David B. is correct. What I've found is you have to do a reboot/cold
boot for the swapfile change to take effect.
Dave

Not pointless at all, more than once I've had a customer come in because
they were getting low virtual memory errors in XP, after questioning I find
out they upgrade from 128 or 256 MB to a GB, I go in set the swap file from
factory fixed size (it's still set to the proper size for the original 128
or 256MB) to system managed, problem solved.

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"Gerry" wrote in message
...
Dave

Your point is correct but the point David B and Leonard were at
loggerheads over was a different point. A bit of a pointless debate
because the pagefile sizing assumptions by Microsoft were, with the advent
of larger drives, demonstrably wrong. The late Alex Nichol pointed this
out in his still relevant Article in 2004.
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm