Save Valuable Boot Time On Windows XP

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Sep

Starting the computer and having to wait for that Windows loading screen can get irritating. However, there is a trick that you can use to speed it up dramatically. This trick is done by moving the Virtual Memory from the system hard drive to any other hard drive. Unfortunately, this only works if you have two or more physical hard drives (not virtual/partition):

To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Right click on My Computer and then Properties. Choose the Advanced tab.
  2. Click the First Settings Button under Performance. Click on the Advanced Tab on the new window that pops up.
  3. Click Change under Virtual Memory
  4. Select the hard drive that is not the system drive, to move the virtual memory onto it.
  5. Click Custom Size. Set both values to be around twice the RAM that is currently in your computer. For example, if you have 1GB of RAM, set the size to 2048 (1GB = 1024 MB). Click Set.
  6. Select the hard drive which had the virtual memory on it (the system hard drive) and click No Paging File. Then, click Set.
  7. Click OK to the rest of the windows. Restart your computer. Done.

Note: This might not work after the first reboot. Give it some time. There are cases where this decreased the boot time from around 10 seconds to 3-5 seconds.

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Uma says, September 16th, 2007   

something related to this post..

i was googling out to find a way to refresh my virtual memory,without restarting my PC.will appreciate if you have idea on this front.

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Ben says, November 22nd, 2007   

I remember I used to use a program called Memturbo, It might still be around. Cleans out your memory, which might make your windows go a bit slow at first, but makes room for new stuff, if your starting a game or anything. So its good.

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Geoff says, March 9th, 2008   

uma, for refreshing your virtual memory, try speedupmypc3 from uniblue. not too sure what it does exactly but it has two options - Free Up RAM and Deep RAM recovery - which seem to refresh the memory (possibly not virtual - dunno) of your computer. it has other functions that seem to be very useful - cleaning, optimisation, etc… (btw, i’m not a rep :p)

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