Comments on: Increase the FileSystem Memory Cache Size in Vista

By: abhinav

abhinav — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:06:04 +0000

hey i have a questn
i have Hp dv-1006ax laptop with ati mobility 3450 HD 256 mb…………….will this method help in increasing the gaming performance of my laptop?

By: Barb

Barb — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:52:12 +0000

Tried NTFSMemoryUsage to 2 in vistax64 with 8gb of ram Q9650 2.83GHZ cpu, Nvidia Gtx260oc Video noticed pictures opened much quicker plus have a pan and tilt camera which seemed to lag much less with this fix . Applications jump noticeably faster to the screen.
Thankyou!

By: Shah

Shah — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:39:43 +0000

I have a computer with windows xp intel pentium 4 with 3.0ghz and 1gb ram and a laptop with 2.0ghz core 2 duo and 3gb ram. Will the benefits be noticable. I’m asking coz i’ve only seen 2gb and 4gb ram posts

By: Michael Adams

Michael Adams — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:58:45 +0000

Setting is also valid for Windows 7. Will test to see how effective it is.

By: Lonnel

Lonnel — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:50:28 +0000

I have a 1.37 gig ram and im currently getting vista lag alot less now than ever before. thanks for posting this!

By: Teck

Teck — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:58:55 +0000

Amazing! it really works very well with my vista.starting programs becomes faster! Thank you!!

By: Paul Reiter

Paul Reiter — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:22:55 +0000

I tried this again, after Matt’s comments. Sorry, no big change again except that now I keep getting “low on memory” messages from Vista….and I have 4 gig of memory! It used to run about 50%, with this change more like 88%. The message must trigger at 90% or so.

So I changed it back again to “1″.

By: Matt Salas

Matt Salas — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:51:58 +0000

In checking my initial memory usage setting, I found it was set to “0″. I recently upgraded my Turion 1.8ghz Laptop from 1GB to 4GB, running Vista Home Premium (32-bit). I changed the setting to 2, restarted the machine. Wow! The apps in my systray populated almost instantaneously! I’ve been doing a lot of DVD ripping for archiving purposes. One Movie used to take as much as 1 1/2 hours previously. I just finished one in 38 minutes, and another in 40. What I suspect is that, having the memory usage set to “0″ previously made taking advantage of a dual core proccessor, or the increased RAM, difficult, considering the usage was determined by the computer, based on the system environment and number of apps open. Perhaps, for what I use my machine for, this change has made it possible to take advantage of the hardware I have.

P.S. It also dramatically improved the “smoothness”, and consistency of video I was streaming from my machine to a media center set up I have. No stutter any more, over a power-line sytem that I had been using with my previous settings. Try this, it’s a stable adjustment with NOTICEABLE improvements in an otherwise slow hoggish OS – Vista.

By: GeekToBe

GeekToBe — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:43:23 +0000

I change it to 2, then i tried pressing my documents back and forward.. i felt that its faster than when it was set at 0. Oh and i have 4GB ram.. Its good Its good!

By: Paul Reiter

Paul Reiter — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:05:52 +0000

I run Vista Home Premium, with 4 Gb of memory. Making the change to “2″ did not seem to have any effect on my machine, so I changed it back to “1″.