Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Load Kernel Into RAM

In Windows 98, programs could be loaded and kept in RAM for as long as you wanted. You could even load a anything into the RAM even video clip and have it play from there!. this feature doesnto exists in XP  or by defaut it's disabled. this is done mostly due to security reasons.



But when it comes to the Windows XP kernel there is nothing to worry about. By default, XP only loads the required parts of the kernel into RAM at boot time. as and when needed the other parts are called. Having the entire kernel available in memory speeds up processing.



Navigate to:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control \SessionManager \Memory Management




Set the value of the DisablePagingExecutive key to 1. This will make the entire kernel be loaded in memory. To diable it you can set it back to ) . You need to reboot for the changes to take effect.

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