RAM performance

[DAVE]

what's the best program for improver performance in win2K pro
which one help to increase RAM performance ?

[Norm]

Win2K itself.

[mnosteele52]

Originally posted by Norm
Win2K itself.

Yep, NT based OS's have excellent RAM management. There are a few tweaks you can do such as set a static pagefile and do a boot defrag to defrag your pagefile and use the largesystemcache tweak (which is in X-Setup) or you could do manually.

[PainMantra]

Originally posted by mnosteele52

set a static pagefile and do a boot defrag to defrag your pagefile

Please Explain. How would you go about doing these suggestions?

[mnosteele52]

Right click on My Computer - properties - advanced - performance options - change your pagefile size there (I think 512MB is is perfect no matter how much physical RAM you have), set both min & max to 512MB, it will then prompt you to reboot for the changes to take effect. Now for the boot time defrag, I have never used 2K or XP's built in defrag apps but I have read XP will do a boot time defrag (I may be wrong because I never use it) I use PerfectDisk 2000 and I know allot of third party defrag apps have this feature, certain files such as the pagefile cannot be defragged while in Windows so a boot derag is the option to fully optimize your drive. Once you do this then the pagefile will not fragment again becasue it is static and in theory it will improve the perfromance of your pc.

[YeOldeStonecat]

[quote]Originally posted by DAVE
what's the best program for improver performance in win2K pro
which one help to increase RAM performance ? [/QUOTE

Like mentioned above, NT based OS's are great themselves for memory management, unlike Win9X which could get a big sloppy, hence the need for reboots now and then.

How much memory depends on what you run, but I try to setup all my clients with a minimum of 384 megs for Win2K..the box often comes with 128 megs, I'll plop in a 256 meg stick. 256 is decent for average use, less and you're dragging. 512 decent for heavier "powerusers".

As for the swapfile, I don't see any benefit of trying to manage that yourself, again, the OS itself does a great job with that itself, and if you have enough system memory, you won't be using the pagefile much anyways. Also, depends on what you're running. But I haven't seen those typical Win9X tweaks to the swapfile affect anything, good/bad, as the OS does it well.

[DAVE]

mnosteele
for disk defrag i think excutive diskeeper is the best

[mnosteele52]

I have to disagree with that one DAVE, I have used it and PerfectDisk2000 and I actually see a noticeable difference after using PD2000, try it and I'm sure you will agree.

[DAVE]

let me try and compare
i had PD2000 but never try it be4

[DAVE]

mnosteele52
after test alot of program on my comp
now the 1.4Ghz 256DDR run slower than the Laptop win2k 233MHZ 128SDram
the PD2000 is awesome but i think i need to reinstall my comp
hehe