It's a given that anything that runs in RAM will be faster than an item that has to access the hard drive and virtual memory. Rather than have the kernel that is the foundation of XP using the slower paging executive functions, use this hack to create and set the DisablePagingExecutive DWORD to a value of 1.
Perform this hack only if the system has 256MB or more of installed RAM.
Edit the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\DisablePagingExecutive
to 1 to disable paging and have the kernel run in RAM (set the value to 0 to undo the hack). Exit the registry and reboot.
I have done this on my production HS system and my general development system (both have 1 gig RAM's) and see no adverse affects, and a speed up (subjective) of some windows operation.
Perform this hack only if the system has 256MB or more of installed RAM.
Edit the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\DisablePagingExecutive
to 1 to disable paging and have the kernel run in RAM (set the value to 0 to undo the hack). Exit the registry and reboot.
I have done this on my production HS system and my general development system (both have 1 gig RAM's) and see no adverse affects, and a speed up (subjective) of some windows operation.