Showing posts with label slow pc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slow pc. Show all posts

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Disable the last access update


Whenever a folder is opened from an NTFS volume on a Windows NT machines, the system takes the time to update a timestamp field on each listed folder, called the last access time. On a heavily used NTFS volume, this can affect performance.

If you'd like to get a little extra performance out of your disk volumes, or if you have a large number of folders, you can disable this process and make directory lists more nimble.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

How to increase the Virtual Memory



Virtual Memory is a Memory Management technique where a part of the hard disk can be used as RAM aimed at increasing the performance of the computer and also to allow better multitasking in the kernel.




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