The Computer Oracle

What to do with a ton of extra memory?

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00:00 What To Do With A Ton Of Extra Memory?
00:35 Answer 1 Score 23
00:44 Answer 2 Score 6
01:01 Answer 3 Score 5
01:21 Answer 4 Score 4
01:39 Accepted Answer Score 3
01:57 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/29684/wh...

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#windows7 #performance #memory

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ANSWER 1

Score 23


Don't disable your page file. See here.




ANSWER 2

Score 6


Try putting portable Firefox on a ramdisk and enjoy a dramatic speed increase. Dataram is free and saves its contents to hard disk when you shut down the computer (and optionally at regular intervals).




ANSWER 3

Score 5


If you want, you can try loading some of your most-used programs in a RAM Disk to make them load faster. I tend to just leave it alone and let Superfetch do it's job. When I leave my computer on for a couple days it's not unusual to see it cache 6GB of programs and files.




ANSWER 4

Score 4


move the browser cache to RAM disk.

disabling virtual memory is certainly an option, but may have a negative impact on certain programs that explicitly require paging, but then, it's only a few mouse clicks away to turn back on :)