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Sep 26 / Yaswanth

Place Windows Kernel into RAM – Registry Hacks to Speed Up XP

It’s a given that anything that runs in RAM will be faster than an item that
has to access the hard drive and virtual memory. Rather than have the kernel
that is the foundation of XP using the slower Paging Executive functions,
use this hack to create and set the DisablePagingExecutive DWORD to a
value of 1.
Perform this hack only if the system has 256MB or more of
installed RAM!
Edit the Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\
Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\DisablePagingExecutive to 1 to
disable paging and have the kernel run in RAM (set the value to 0 to undo
this hack). Exit the Registry and reboot.

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  1. Registry cleaner reviews / May 10 2008

    This is a nice hack. I will try this with my pc.

  2. The Man / Feb 6 2009

    Nice work. This is a great way to temporarily speed things up but I wouldn’t recommend it for long term use.

  3. akd / May 28 2010

    ther is no option DisablePagingExecutive in regedit of my sys… so where i can find that.

  4. Yaswanth / May 28 2010

    @akd If you are not able to find an entry then create one . :)

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