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I am just amazed at preformance increase from tweaking around in Xp, and wanted to share. I am running an Athlon XP 1600+ overclocked to a 150 MHz FSB resulting in a 1572 MHz stable speed, and cooled by a Thermaltake Volcano 11+ Xaser Edition and 6 case fans. A Gigabyte 7ZXE mobo, 256 Megs of Crucial PC133, NVidia GeForce 4 Ti w/ 128 Megs of DDR, 2 - 60 Gig Seagate Barracuda ATA IV drives with IDE 0 running Win XP, and IDE 1 Partitioned into 3 drives with the middle being a 1024 Meg partition allocating a 384 Meg (1.5 X system Ram) page file directly in center of disk.
I also downloaded and installed a freeware program called "PageDefrag for Windows XP" that defrags the pagefile at every boot in 3 seconds. My increase from this alone was amazing. Then I tweaked services by looking up every one of them on the web to see if they were needed or not, and shutting down the ones that were not, along with shutting down Sys Restore and Updating. This gave me back 16% of my resources! With a few other tweaks in the Reg, a "prefetch delete command", shuting down Disk indexing and setting Graphics Interface to "Preformance", I feel like I have a new system! Incredible speeds! I recommend this to anyone looking to speed up their system a bit. Tweaks can be found at: http://www.windowsxpatoz.com/cgi-bin/performance/index.cgi. Good luck and thanks for letting me share!
if you really want to go fast get rid of you pagefile compleatly and get 512mb more ram then you will really know what speed is ;)
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an athlon 1600 is only running at 1200 mhz.
slo stuff.
get a 3.06 gigahertz with 512 pc 3200 ddr, and xp, and fast is not a debate then, and include a 15,000 rpm scsi harddrive.
fffaaasssssttt!!!
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is there any drawbacks getting rid of pagefile??.
i have mine set to initial 2mb, maximum my installed memory 768mb.
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XP gives you the option of not using the pagefile if you have more
than 512MB of RAM. To disable the pagefile, perform the following
steps:
1. Start the Control Panel System applet (go to Start, Settings,
Control Panel, and click System).
2. Select the Advanced tab.
3. Under the Performance section, click Settings.
4. Select the Advanced tab.
5. Under the Virtual Memory section, click Change.
6. Select No Paging File and click Set.
7. Click OK.===========================================
You can move the pagefile to another partition .
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307886
HOW TO: Move the Paging File in Windows XP
The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
SUMMARY
This article describes how to change the location of the paging file in Windows XP.
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