Slow switching between users

[Stubby]

Win2KP SP4. I seem to rermember monkeying with some setting in the
registry that controls the way pages trickle back to disk. But that
was about 2 years ago! The problem is things are working fine until
I want to switch from, say, Quicken to Outlook. The system hangs up
for about 10 seconds with the disk-active light on. So I assume that
I activated something that tries to keep all pages in RAM as long as
possible instead of writing them back to disk (swap file) as soon as
possible. Can anyone tell me the name of the entry to fiddle with
again? TIA

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

Win2KP SP4. I seem to rermember monkeying with some setting in the
registry that controls the way pages trickle back to disk. But that
was about 2 years ago! The problem is things are working fine until
I want to switch from, say, Quicken to Outlook. The system hangs up
for about 10 seconds with the disk-active light on. So I assume that
I activated something that tries to keep all pages in RAM as long as
possible instead of writing them back to disk (swap file) as soon as
possible. Can anyone tell me the name of the entry to fiddle with
again? TIA

When hacking the registry then the standard method is
a) to back up the branch that you're modifying, and
b) to keep detailed notes.
If you did neither then it is unlikely that anyone can tell you what you
"fiddled" with. A repair installation might fix the problem.

 

[John John - MVP]

Maybe you changed the Performance Option to give greater memory to the
System Cache (File Serving) at the expense of the applications. Do a
search for "LargeSystemCache".

John

 

[Stubby]

Maybe you changed the Performance Option to give greater memory to the
System Cache (File Serving) at the expense of the applications.  Do a
search for "LargeSystemCache".

John




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Thanks, John John. LargeSystemCache seems to apply only to WinXP.
But that's a good lead and I'll follow it.

 

[John John - MVP]

Thanks, John John. LargeSystemCache seems to apply only to WinXP.
But that's a good lead and I'll follow it.

It also applies to Windows 2000 Professional.

John