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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.

13 comments:

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

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

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  3. 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

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

    HG

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

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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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  8. I am running vista premium 32 bit, 3 gigs of ram, dual core amd... I noticed whenever i quit a large game (more than 500 mb ram) my hd would thrash for at least a minute or two. i'm not sure what made me decide to disable superfetch in services, but after i did this, i noticed the lengthy disk thrashing after playing a game stopped completely. So i would highly recommend disabling superfetch if you have alot of ram and run large applications. However windows does greatly rely on use of a page file, and disabling the page file i would definatly *not* recommend doing.

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