Improve RAM management on Windows XP

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This tip will help you improve the management of the RAM on Windows by optimizing the memory allocated to the inputs / outputs. Its very helpful, just go through these steps:-

First open the Registry editor from by clicking "Start" "Run " then type "regedit" and click "OK"

Create or edit the DWORD value "IoPageLockLimit" and enter the following values (hexadecimal) with the amount of your RAM:

• For 128 MB of RAM: "0001C000"
• For 256 MB of RAM: "0003C000"
• For 512 MB of RAM: "00070000"
• For 1024 MB of RAM: "000f0000"
• For 1024 MB RAM: 000F0000
• For 2048 MB Ram: 001F0000
• For 3072 MB Ram: 002F0000
• For 4096 MB Ram: 003F0000

If you have a different amount of RAM you can find the value was added by establishing the following rule:

• If you have 64 MB of RAM or less, subtract 7 MB to your RAM before converting to hex.
  
  
• If have between 64 and 512 MB RAM, 16 MB to remove your RAM before converting to hex.
  
  
• If you have more than 512 MB RAM, 64 MB to remove your RAM before converting to hex.

Example for 2048 MB (2 GB) of RAM:
2048-64 = 1984 (subtracting the amount of RAM)
1984 * 1024 = 2031616 (conversion kilobytes)
2031616 = 1F0000 (hex conversion)

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To convert to hex, open the Windows calculator in the "View" tab select "Scientific". Verify that "Decimal" is selected and then type your number. Simply select "Hexadecimal" to convert the number.

With 128 MB of RAM, it is still necessary to match memory resources to an application's needs and penalties—small delays for I/O must sometimes be paid. Adding additional memory resources can eliminate more and more of these penalties, and can provide a definite improvement in responsiveness for applications that handle large amounts of data, such as many multimedia applications and games. Additional resources will also let you use fast user switching a situation where applications left running on other users' sessions may compete for resources with your applications.