Comments on: Simple ways to increase your computer’s performace – Configuring the paging file

By: Abdurazack

Abdurazack — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:34:27 +0000

This is the best info Ive gotten so far thank you! My PC only has 256 MG of RAM but it kinda runs like it has 4 GB! used to run like Malasis on a cold day! Thank u again!

By: Tourist

Tourist — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:35:25 +0000

Here’s a link to the original article concerning the page file:

support.microsoft.com/kb/314482

By: Janice Gahagans

Janice Gahagans — Sun, 16 May 2010 03:27:41 +0000

I did not understand what paging file is in your explanation. I wanted to know what was the best way to upgrade my computer if it doesn’t have enough RAM? I do not believe my question was answered in these responses. Thank you.

By: Steven Stringer

Steven Stringer — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:02:46 +0000

Put an SSD as your boot drive on sata 0 or 1, move your pagefile to another HDD, just that moved me from WEI 5.5 to 7.5, once a week, run Intel’s Optimizer.

By: Crunch

Crunch — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:07:48 +0000

I agree. Great information! I have a question, though. Is the formula mentioned in this article valid for SSD’s (Solid State Drive) as well?

I have the Intel X25-M 80GB and the speeds are simply phenomenal. I have 3GB of RAM and a secondary hard drive with 320GB capacity but it’s slow at 5,400rpm.

I’ve read a lot of things regarding the paging file on SSD’s, including even advice that suggested eliminating it altogether. Some applications won’t work without a paging file, so that seems a little radical to me. However, being that the nature of an SSD basically *is* memory (NAND flash memory to be exact), should I still put the paging file on my 2nd (hard) drive, or am I better off leaving it on the SSD, which is the primary drive and has only one partition?

That said, I can easily create a 2nd partition for the purpose of maintaining the paging file in an ideal way. However, before I do anything with this, I just wanted to get some input as to what extent, if any, these instructions apply to SSD’s, as well, or if they apply mainly to regular hard drives.

Thanks a bunch!

By: Naset

Naset — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:11:58 +0000

Thank you very much! I bought a new computer and didn’t think I could make it any faster, but after moving the page file to a different hard drive altogether, Windows is definitely running smoother. Great tips!

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:01:02 +0000

Thank you very much for nice tips i have used these tips and used registry cleaner Reginout and my PC is running like a horse now

By: Sri

Sri — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:09:42 +0000

This was really helpful to me on my home computer with 512 MB RAM. It runs a lot faster now.

By: sanjay

sanjay — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:13:41 +0000

I originally had 256 MB DDR and I upgraded the RAM to 512 MB (256 MB + 512 MB =768 MB). Unforunatley, I get virtual memory error messages when I try to do stuff while browsing online. I have this problem when I have a lot of websites open like Facebook, etc. How can I get rid of these virtual memory errors?

By: Fix “Instruction at referenced memory could not be read”

Fix “Instruction at referenced memory could not be read” — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:09:22 +0000

[...] my previous article on how to optimize the page file size in order to set the value to the appropriate setting for your computer. Restart the computer and [...]

By: Paging ForDummies

Paging ForDummies — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:51:40 +0000

I have only the “c” drive, and I wish to create a different particion like “d”, to speed up my computer. The default paging file size is:1536-3072, and i have 1.00 GB of RAM. any suggestions would be nice

By: RoninV

RoninV — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:35:04 +0000

My previous post is wrong. I just wanted to make sure I received all responses to this thread.

By: RoninV

RoninV — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:33:42 +0000

…paging file importance?

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:26:36 +0000

hi, thanks for this because its taught me how to change it but im confused. I have 3gb RAM, so would it make my computer faster if i switched off my paging files or would it make my computer faster if i turned it up? Thank you for any help.

By: donola88

donola88 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:01:32 +0000

Greetings and thank you for your educational post.You’ve stated that it’s ideal if the paging file can be placed in it’s own partition with no other data. How is this to be done; say if I want to create such a partition in drive D? And yes, I HAVE followed no 13 above. Would appreciate your guidance, thanks.