Computer Going Slow?

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  1. Joe

    Joe Well-Known Member

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    aight, this made my computer TONS faster and the only kinda bad thing about it is that it takes up hard drive space but here we go...
    Go to Control Panel > System > Advanced (tab) > Performance (section) > Settings > Advanced (tab) > Virtual memory (setcion) > Change... Then change the initial size and maximum size (has to be equal to or greater than the initial size) to a high number (the higher, the faster) and there you go! NOTE: It takes the space out of your hard drive, but if you have a ton of extra space then I suggest you max it out! (mine maxed out at 4096 MB cuz i have a laptop :P)
    But this is not a joke, this really works! My computer got so much faster instantly.
     
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    Well, you have to restart your computer first, but it does seem to be going faster.
     
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    yeah,goin faster,but just enough to notice for me,thanks d00d
     
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    yeah np, i forgot to add that because you only have to do it if you raise it a lot. like first i raised mine to like 3000 then to 4096 and then i had to restart it
     
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    well before you said this, isnt it supposed to be set, at max, 4 times the amount of ram u have?

    so how much higer should it be set to for it to really notice the fastness? 10x? 20x? all avalible hd?
     
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    naw, the max is 4096 i think, well atleast for me and 2 of my friends it is and trust me, you can tell a difference.
     
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    Yes, max is 4096.
     
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    I guess you guys are using a 32bits computer? yeah, then the max 4096mb. I you got a 64bits computer you can set it to 1tb or so
     
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    wtf? 64 bit is only the processor, it has nothing to do about the hard drive and the ram memory
     
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    seems to be going the same speed to me...
    lemme run a DxDiag
     
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    mine is already pretty fast so this didnt do much ;/
    for mine atleast
     
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    I can barely notice it.
     
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    well if u have a gig of ram and use the normal x4 for max, then that is pretty much wat uve said.
     
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    if u have a 64 bit processor and u have windows 64 bit edition, it can support up to (i think) 132gb of ram and 68 tb of hdd space.
     
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    i had alrdy done this, and it worked gr8 for me :D
     

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