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    Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 10:00pm
One of my friends came over today for a routine school project. He's an electronics geek like me, heh, and was wondering whether my internet was just naturally slow as it was, or whether it was my computer. I've already noticed that my HDD might not be as quick as I expeced, and he advised to see if turning off virtual memory would help. So I turned it off, and I saw a noticeable increase in loading times for all programs. Is this really a good idea? I have 6GB RAM, and my usage normally idles around ~30%. In addition, if the RAM usage ever explodes, how the heck do I turn virtual memory back on with that situation?
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Discussion on virtual memory and page files used to come up in regards to SSDs. Some of the earlier SSDs had short rated life spans, and with no garbage cleaning algorithms would eventually degrade to horrible performance, so some people wanted to do everything they could to reduce writes to the SSDs.

If I remember correctly you're alright with disabling it as long as you have a decent amount of RAM, but some apps/games, mostly older ones, may throw a fit and not want to start if you have it disabled. Also I believe if you start coming close to running out of available RAM Windows will give you a warning about it and tell you to start ending programs.

I don't remember where to turn it back on, but it's in the same place you turn it off.
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My page file has been off for years, if you have 4GB of ram and don't do anything heavy like vm or 3D editing then you can go ahead and turn page file off.

right click my computer>properties>advanced>performance>settings>advance>virtual memory>change>here disable pape file.

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not to complain here but if your friend assumes your computer is bottlenecking internet speeds and he knows the specs of your computer and thinks its your problem he would be the last person i would take advice from.
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well, he thought it might be my rig because the hdd was pretty much overloaded at startup. firefox was taking a longgggg time to start.
 
and, i meant like, if it ever so occurs that ram usage at startup gets too high for physical ram, hypothetically, how do i get to the area to turn virtual ram on?i know where it is, but the physical ram will overload by the time i get there.
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Safe mode. If you're using that much ram at startup you should change your startup.
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you have ff set to start with windows?

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hm? oh no. its that when I try to open it up during startup, everything else that's starting up bogs it down.

Not using that much RAM as startup, but I'm pretty sure virtual RAM was a backup system in case software advanced so much one day after installing a new program, you didnt notice you dont have the ram to handle it. Normally, virtual RAM would kick in, but I have it disabled now, so I'm just interested in figuring out a way to switch it back on. Annnnd I'm so stupid, of COURSE safe mode would work...lol....jeeze i need to start thinking better....
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