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Memory maximize it You may think that your PC only has one type of memory – the main system RAM. However, there are memory chips throughout your motherboard in addition to main RAM – on your graphics card, hard drive and even built in to your processor. All these little segments of memory are designed to speed your PC up, by giving your PC somewhere to quickly store data without having to save it to the main RAM or much slower hard drive. Unfortunately most Windows users ignore these different temporary stores when optimising their PCs, but with a few tweaks to the so-called 'cache' memory, you can make your PC run much faster. Tuning Your Windows Drive Cache Settings for Super-Fast Performance Your PC comes with a standard set of hard drive cache settings intended by Microsoft to be 'good enough' in most circumstances, but not optimal for any particular PC configuration. Depending on how you use your PC, you can significantly boost performance by tweaking the way cache memory is used. If you have more than 1 GB of RAM, and you close open applications when you no longer need them rather than leaving them open, then applying this tweak should speed up your PC: 1. Press [Windows Key] + [R], type REGEDIT and click OK. 2. Navigate to the registry key:- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management 3. Double-click on DisablePagingExecutive. 4. Change the Value data field to 1, then click OK.



5. Double-click on LargeSystemCache. 6. Change the Value data field to 1, then click OK. 7. Exit the registry editor and restart your PC for the changes to take effect.

The tweak works by forcing Windows to keep a key part of the operating system – the kernel in memory, rather than storing it on the drive page file, which means that the key functions of the operating system can be accessed quickly. It also forces Windows to use the majority of the RAM allocated to operating system functions for drive caching, which also speeds up performance. To test the tweak after it is applied and your system has rebooted, open a large application, such as Microsoft Word. Close the application then open it again, and see how fast it loads. In tests you will find that a machine with these tweaks applied may open applications up to 3 times faster than before