Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Make your Vista to run faster in your UMPC

A few days ago I found a thread at OrigamiProject forum with a some registry keys that according to the author could speed up Vista a little bit in our devices.

Here are the two keys that needs to be changed:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\

Change EnableSuperfetch from 3 to 0.

And:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

Change DisablePagingExecutive from 0 to 1.

You will notice a good improvement in Outlook 2007 and other applications. If you want to know what every key does and some tests result, check this thread.

Warning: Do no apply the second trick unless you have at least 1Gb of RAM.

Update: James Kendrick tested this hack just reported that all his issue with HDD trashing without reason has disappeared after applying this hack. In another hand, I just prepared a VBS Script to apply this hack.

Updated 2: Kevin is reporting that when the page excutive is disabled his Zune skips 20 seconds before the end of each song.

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12 Comments:

At 3:56 PM, May 09, 2007, Blogger JohnNull said...

I probably wouldn't try that last one unless you had 1G of RAM.

 
At 3:59 PM, May 09, 2007, Blogger CTitanic said...

And who is thinking about to install Vista in less than 1Gb of RAM. ;)

 
At 11:44 AM, May 10, 2007, Blogger Mark said...

What does it mean if you don't have this key?

I have HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet

but no session manager. Just Control, Enum, Hardware Profiles and Services.

Mark

 
At 12:01 PM, May 10, 2007, Blogger CTitanic said...

Look inside of Control.

 
At 11:40 AM, May 12, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ctitanic have you applied this Registry hack? If so have you notice any improvements? which UMP Device do you have? Thanks

HG

 
At 11:45 AM, May 12, 2007, Blogger CTitanic said...

yes, I do. Check this thread.

 
At 11:47 AM, May 12, 2007, Blogger CTitanic said...

Q1

 
At 8:35 AM, July 06, 2007, Anonymous funb said...

this tip slow down everything. Don't do that!

 
At 9:07 AM, July 06, 2007, Blogger Frank J Garcia - CTitanic said...

funb, because you think so, or because you test it.

The fact is that the Superfetch works if you have a machine with a lot of RAM, at least 2 GB of it. This page is about UMPC if you have not noticed. UMPC are sold with at most 1 GB, and my tests and the tests of many other people indicate that with that amount of RAM superfetch just does not do any good.

 
At 7:10 AM, February 09, 2009, Blogger Frank J Garcia - CTitanic said...

No spam!

 
At 8:44 PM, April 14, 2009, Blogger Frank J Garcia - CTitanic said...

No spam

 
At 3:43 PM, June 22, 2009, Blogger PROF. said...

Hi there, I make this change and the PC is running like hell (and also I make previous another trucks).

Thanks from GDL.MX

 

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