DisablePagingExecutive

Vampyromaniac · Mar 1, 2004, 03:19 AM

Anyone here enable this setting in the registry? What effects did you notice from it, if any?
What's the minimum RAM you should have, to use it?

Value&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Meaning
0&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Drivers and the kernel can be paged to disk as needed.
1&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Drivers and the kernel must remain in physical memory.

TwistedMetal · Mar 1, 2004, 03:29 AM

Disabling Page File can be bad. Some games and programs depend on it.

I would say a min. of 1 GB, but I have read somewhere some say 512.

Vampyromaniac · Mar 1, 2004, 03:40 AM

this doesn't disable the page file...
only disables paging the kernel and drivers

TwistedMetal · Mar 1, 2004, 03:45 AM

I have no idea. I never messed with any part of the page file, but I don't see it improving performance any.

PangingJr · Mar 1, 2004, 04:41 AM

Windows uses RAM, most of the core system and its important parts will use/need RAM.

Apps/programs uses RAM when it starts then most of its memory management goes to Swapfile/Pagefile.

as you can see you can run windows without pagefile, windows itself do not need it ,... but some prob or errors may occur when running some programs without using pagefile.

i have tried it on XP and haven't seen difference in performance so i rather keep all avail RAM for windows..,
you can try it in win2k, as long as you still use/have pagefile and i believed you already have atleast 512MB RAM.