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. . .geez!! . . .you almost gave me a heart attack!!!  . . .my hearts still racing. . .

                 [. . .hunny . . .hunny!!   Call the medics!!!]   

       Special Tweak for Indestructable ~ Press F11, then Windows Key + L

. . .never use a memory optimizer, BIG waste of memory ~ ironically!

hey ROM, could you please clarify what they are saying to do here:

http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/sgp-tweaks.ars/2

I'm talking about the first tweak on that page...please clarify. Thanks

lol, now you got me hooked on tweaking!  lol

HAHAHA!!! you know that PM I sent you? That's my problem...I did that...too many things at once...hmm...

Hey Rom, was wondering how I can change my priority level on my modem as well as yours, also what setting it should be on

Thanks

Found this site out today has over 380 Registry Edits for Windows XP
Tweaks and Tips


http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Memory Management: Kernel Paging and Cache Tuning

The "DisablePagingExecutive" entry in the registry prevents the kernel (the core of the XP OS) from being rolled out to the page file. The effect of this part of the tweak is to cause the OS to cache the OS Kernel and its entourage to RAM instead of to disk, which makes XP far more responsive.

The "LargeSystemCache" registry entry forces XP to allocate all but 4MB of system memory, that is system memory, not avaliable RAM, to the file system cache. The remaining 4MB of system memory is used for disk caching, though XP will allocate more memory if it is needed.

A modern hard disk will transfer sequential data to and from disk at up to 40MB per second, or even faster on some drives, but the LargeSystemCache tweak means that effective transfer speeds of 1GB per second or more can be obtained, depending on the amount of RAM in your system and its operating speed. This is achieved because the LargeSystemCache modification causes the OS to store data read from disk in RAM. It means that the OS is always using the optimum amount of RAM instead of leaving it untouched for future use that may or may not occur. Without this part of the tweak, 200MB or more of RAM in a typical 512MB machine goes completely unused.

Some I/O intensive applications may take a hit in performance from changing the LargeSystemCache, so this particular component of the tweak should not be applied to a system that is running either SQL Server or Internet Information Server (IIS) because both of those applications perform their own caching.

Start regedit and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

Add these two lines, save the changes and reboot;

 DisablePagingExecutive = dword:00000001

 LargeSystemCache = dword:00000001

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The Win32PrioritySeparation has to do with processor scheduling.
This part of the tweak is impossible to explain without getting into the technical ins and outs of binary values, bit pairs and bit masks. Suffice it to say, this part of the tweak forces short, variable length processor timeslices to be allocated to foreground processes three times more often than those timeslices given to background processes.

There are 2 settings you can choose:

Adjust for best performance of Programs
  or
Adjust for best performance of Background Services.

All this does is change the DWORD value of Win32PrioritySeparation under this registry hive:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl

Set Win32PrioritySeparation to 0x26 (decimal 38) for Programs.

Set Win32PrioritySeparation to 0x18 (decimal 24) for  Background Services.

set the base value to hexadecimal.

Well its FASTER thats forsure. Thanks ROM-DOS