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2. August 2008 @ 23:18

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Hey, like many of you I only have a fair amount of ram (2GB), but there is a little option for you to sacrifice a small amount of HDD memory to gain a fairly good amount of RAM which is completely worth it. I'm not sure if this works for any other OS, but those of you who have windows XP can start by click the Start button on the bottom left of the screen. Then click on the Control Panel, next click Performance and Maintenance, then System, now click the tab entitled "Advanced". From there you should click the "settings" button underneath the "Performance" section. Next choose the advanced tab, and where it says Virtual Memory click the button, "Change." Now make sure that you selected "custom size" and from there change the "initial size(MB)" to whatever the "maximum size(MB)" says. Click set, then ok, then apply, and you should see a pretty big difference and it only took you 5 minutes.. YAY!!

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