How To Speed Up Windows Vista And Windows XP

You may find that most of the time that computers that are loaded with data and softwares often become slow. This problem can be solved to a large extent just by increasing the virtual memory. Here is a very simple and easy way to the increase your virtual memory on your Windows Vista or XP.

How does increasing virtual memory speed up my computer?

Pagefile.sys is a windows system file which acts as a virtual memory extension of a computer’s RAM. Normally Pagefile.sys is set to the same size as your physical memory as it consumes a large amount of hard disk space. However, if you have hard disk space to spare, you can further increase the allocated memory to optimize your system speed by just turning off ‘Automatically manage Paging file Generation’ and providing higher custom values.

Note: If the size of your RAM is 512 mb or less please do not turn off ’Automatically manage Paging file Generation’ as your system is likely to crash.

How to increase speed up your Windows Vista PC:

(If you run Windows XP on your computer, scroll down a bit)

1. Go to ‘Control Panel’ and open ‘System’.

2. Now click on advanced system settings on the top left-hand corner of the screen and give permission to open it.

3. Now click ‘Setting’ under Performance on the new window.

4. Click on the ‘Advance’ tab under which click on a ‘Change’.

5. Now uncheck the box which say ‘Automatically manage paging file size for all drives’. Now click ‘Custom size’ and put the Initial size as the size of your RAM and Maximum size as 1.5 times the size of your RAM.

6. Now just restart your computer and see the difference.

How to speed up your Windows XP system:

Increasing the speed of your Windows XP PC is quite similar to how you do it on Windows Vista. Read on.

1. Go to ‘Control Panel’ and open ‘System’.

2. Now click the ‘Advance’ tab then click on ‘Settings’ under Performance.

3. Click on the ‘Advance’ tab under which click on a ‘Change’.

4.Now click custom size and put the initial size as the size of your RAM and maximum size as 1.5 times the size of your RAM.

5. Now just restart your computer.

These is the simplest and easiest way to increase the speed of your Windows computer without spending any money at all on better hardware, softwares etc.