How to optimum use of 4gb Ram in laptop

[Noorani]

Hello Gurus,

I have a Dell Xp M1210 Laptop with 4GB Ram and I would like to optimum
utilize the 4GB and minimize or completely eliminate the Disk Access
for PAGE FILE / SWAPPING at the most. I tried to find the solution on
the forum but could not got the right one. If I am blessed with the
right solution I will be very thankful indeed and appreciate very much
the in depth technical knowhow.

Please send me a copy if possible.

Thank a lot for valuable efforts.

Regards
yahyanoorani

 

[Andrew E.]

Thats fairly simple to do,go to run,type:regedit In
regedit,expand:HKEY_LOCAL
_MACHINE,system,currentcontrolset,control,sessionmanager,open memory
management.Locate & L.clickisablePagingExecutive Go to edit,modify,set
to 1 from 0,close out regedit.

 

[John John]

Hello Gurus,

I have a Dell Xp M1210 Laptop with 4GB Ram and I would like to optimum
utilize the 4GB and minimize or completely eliminate the Disk Access
for PAGE FILE / SWAPPING at the most. I tried to find the solution on
the forum but could not got the right one. If I am blessed with the
right solution I will be very thankful indeed and appreciate very much
the in depth technical knowhow.

You cannot completely eliminate pagefile usage and even if you have
large amounts of RAM installed getting rid of the pagefile is almost
always a bad idea. Keep in mind that what you see as pagefile usage in
the Task Manager isn't really an accurate guage of actual page file usage.

John

 

[bojimbo26one]

Hello Gurus,

I have a Dell Xp M1210 Laptop with 4GB Ram and I would like to optimum
utilize the 4GB and minimize or completely eliminate the Disk Access
for PAGE FILE / SWAPPING at the most. I tried to find the solution on
the forum but could not got the right one. If I am blessed with the
right solution I will be very thankful indeed and appreciate very much
the in depth technical knowhow.

Please send me a copy if possible.

Thank a lot for valuable efforts.

Regards
yahyanoorani

You`ve tried the *forum* , have you Googled ?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I have a Dell Xp M1210 Laptop with 4GB Ram and I would like to optimum
utilize the 4GB

Assuming you are running 32-bit Windows, you can *not* use all 4GB,
optimally or otherwise. All 32-bit versions of Windows (not just XP)
have a 4GB address space. Even though you have a 4GB address space, it
can only use *around* 3.1GB of RAM. That's because some of that space
is used by hardware and not available to the operating system and
applications. The amount you can use varies, depending on what
hardware you have installed, but is usually around 3.1GB.

Note that the hardware is using the address *space*, not the actual
RAM itself. The rest of the RAM goes unused because there is no
address space to map it too.

and minimize or completely eliminate the Disk Access
for PAGE FILE / SWAPPING at the most.

Assuming that you are presently paging (and you're probably not with
that much memory), the only way to eliminate it, is to run fewer or
simpler applications. Otherwise it's not under your control. If
Windows and the apps you run need more memory, it will get it and use
it in the form of the page file.

However, almost everyone using Windows XP will see almost *no* page
file usage with as much as 3GB of RAM. In fact that's considerably
more RAM than most people can make effective use of. Unless you run
particularly memory-hungry applications, doing things like
photo-editing or video-editing, chances are you would see no
performance difference between all the RAM you have and only 1GB. Even
dropping to 512MB might make no difference you could notice.

Beware of any software or tweaks that purport to optimize your memory
usage. This stuff is all snake oil, and is far more likely to cause a
problem than to cure one.

 

[Unknown]

Doesn't the hardware use some RAM? Example: DMA?