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Windows XP SP1
AMD2100+ 512 DDR333 RAM
Motherboard ASUS A7V333-X
HDs 180GB IBM Deskstar 8MB Cache + 120GB Western Digital 8MB Cache both HD at 7200 RPM
Can somebody tell me what settings do I set my Windows XP to get an optimal usage for a system which has a lot of video files? I get two problems 1) My CPU resources are hogged by Windows Explorer and 2) the RAM at 512 does not appear to be enough sometimes and I keep using PF virtual memory which slows the machine down to a crawl.
Background
I have a lot of huge video files on my system such as DivX movies and everytime I turn on Windows explorer and go to the file folders which has these huge files my CPU resources for Windows explorer goes through the roof sometimes up to 100% of the CPU not allowing me to do anything else. A large file folder for example could have 50 movies of 700 MB each. If I use the task manager to cancel explorer and start up again, it seems ok for awhile but if i leave explorer open to a folder with huge video files it slow eats up all the CPU resources again. This is frustrating.
Occasionally I also run out of memory although I was told 512MB of RAM was enough and I have to use Virtual PF memory. Are my system settings wrong, i.e. how much I allocate for virtual memory for a system that has lots of large files or will getting more RAM resolve my problem?
Any help in how to tweak my settings will help and also where do I change the in XP since I am relatively new to XP will help thanks!
AMD2100+ 512 DDR333 RAM
Motherboard ASUS A7V333-X
HDs 180GB IBM Deskstar 8MB Cache + 120GB Western Digital 8MB Cache both HD at 7200 RPM
Can somebody tell me what settings do I set my Windows XP to get an optimal usage for a system which has a lot of video files? I get two problems 1) My CPU resources are hogged by Windows Explorer and 2) the RAM at 512 does not appear to be enough sometimes and I keep using PF virtual memory which slows the machine down to a crawl.
Background
I have a lot of huge video files on my system such as DivX movies and everytime I turn on Windows explorer and go to the file folders which has these huge files my CPU resources for Windows explorer goes through the roof sometimes up to 100% of the CPU not allowing me to do anything else. A large file folder for example could have 50 movies of 700 MB each. If I use the task manager to cancel explorer and start up again, it seems ok for awhile but if i leave explorer open to a folder with huge video files it slow eats up all the CPU resources again. This is frustrating.
Occasionally I also run out of memory although I was told 512MB of RAM was enough and I have to use Virtual PF memory. Are my system settings wrong, i.e. how much I allocate for virtual memory for a system that has lots of large files or will getting more RAM resolve my problem?
Any help in how to tweak my settings will help and also where do I change the in XP since I am relatively new to XP will help thanks!
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