7.6.2000

Coming from the "Paging Doctor Forgetful" department, Lockergnomie Eric Findley nails another NT shortcoming. It goes without saying that the more RAM you have, the better your system will run. I believe you're nuts for having anything less than 64 MB on an "NT" system. So, if you DO have more than that, it's time to double-check a setting. Fire up the registry editor and find a certain key: DisablePagingExecutive. Make sure this is set to "1" (again, only if you have more than 64 MB of RAM). This will allow drivers and the kernel code to be kept in memory; the default value is 0, which pages drivers and kernel code only when needed. Anything accessed from system memory will be infinitely faster than anything (dynamically) loaded from a hard drive. Eric uses this tweak on all of the NT4 servers and workstations that he supports. Try it; if it doesn't work out, you can always return the key's value to zero.