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HD Tutorial: Virtual Memory

2009-02-04
hey yes today I want to show you a very very simple very quick way to increase the performance of your Windows machine a lot of people have already done videos on this but I'm just going to do my own it's gonna be a very very quick simple tutorial this one you watch in HD it's how to increase the performance of water pista using virtual memory so open the start the Start menu and right click on your computer and select properties from here we're going to select an advanced system settings if you're using Windows XP there's going to be an Advanced tab you select that and in here there is a performance section and hit the Settings button on the performance section again hit the Advanced tab and here you'll see a virtual memory this is a paging file on your hard disk it's the it's basically the area on your hard disk that Windows uses as if it were rent this helps if you have maybe a 7200 rpm hard drive like I do and it's relatively fast so hit the Change button and a good rule of thumb is used approximately one and a half times the amount of RAM you have your virtual memory so I have 4 gigs of RAM so I selected six gigabytes of virtual memory you hit custom size and you hit and you enter the amount in megabytes as you can see here that you want to use as your virtual memory when you're done hit set it should show up here ok ok and ok and your computer's done that's just a really quick way for you to increase the performance of Windows Vista using virtual memory so thanks for watching subscribe peace
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