Simple editing: quicken Startmenu and conservating Swapfile

Actually, i should have told you about this tip in my earlier posts. Mainly because i think most of you already know about it, it is almost a must do things right after you have installed your Windows Operating System. Let’s get to the point then, i don’t know exactly why Microsoft make it this way. What i’m talking about is the MenuShowDelay in the Registry editor, i mean why did they set the value to 2000 (correct me if i’m wrong, because i can’t really remember it) instead of 0, which referring to a period of time delay when we point our mouse pointer through the menus in the Startmenu.

Now, you can change it by accessing to this directory in the Registry Editor: HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Control Panel | Desktop. In the window on the right find MenuShowDelay, double-click on it and then change the value to 0 (zero).

Ok, i’m done with the first tip, now the second tip is not in Regedit, you can close it now. In the second tip, we’ll be editing MSConfig. Here is what it is, when we runs a program it consumes our RAM (Random Access Memory), if we only have a common amount of RAM (256 or 512 MB) installed in our PC we will having a problem when we runs 2 or more programs that highly consumes RAM, at that moment our PC will processing like a slug or even aren’t moving at all some times. And what’s worst is when the system is out of RAM to use, it’ll use our hard drives too, as an information storage or usually called swapfile.

That’s why we need a conservative swapfile, that can help our RAM to runs more program than before. We can do that by tweaking MSConfig :

- click Startmenu / Run , type msconfig in the Run dialog box

- click on the tab SYSTEM.INI

- click on [386enh] under the tab SYSTEM.INI

- click New button that located on the right of the window

- type ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1?

- click OK, done.