How do I enable the Conservative Swap File setting in Win2k?

[nightowl]

Now that I have a half gig of ram, is there any settings that I should change dealing with the swap file in Win2k. I know that I have seen threads before where they changed settings dealing with the swap file in Win9x (something with conservative swap file usage). Does this also work with Win2k? If so where do I change this, the registry?

 

[ddiccico]

start->setting->control panel->system->advanced->performance options->change(bottom under virtual memory)

 

[nightowl]

I already know that I can change that ddiccico, Thanks anyway. What I am looking for is something to have Win2k use my system ram before going to the swap file.

 

[ddiccico]

sorry, didn't read your post carefully.

i think this is what you want.

 

[juiio]

You don't need to do anything. Win2k already manages RAM very well.

 

[Biggs]

HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Memory Management

DisablePagingExecutive

(This helps speedup your machine by not allowing NT to page out its kernel keeping it in RAM constantly for the most part... good stuff for OS crispness to the max!)

Of course, like any registry settings, you have to reboot for it to take!

 

[loosbrew]

<< Of course, like any registry settings, you have to reboot for it to take! >>



not really...

open your task manager and locate the explorer.exe task. higlight it and select end task. then under file selct new task, and type in explorer.exe and viola, it loads in your new registry database with all the changes that you made previously.

loosbrew

 

[nightowl]

Biggs: I looked where you specified, but I did not find the Memory Management folder. I am logged in as Admin. Do you have to add that setting or is it already there?

 

[sammykun]

nightowl, the registry key is under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
dunno though...mine is already set to 1, and i have wierd memory problems (winamp skipping, programs having wierd lockups). i don't know if that's memory related, or if it's just my processor. time for upgrade...*sigh*