A really important pc question?

ok, i have a dell pc:



dell dimension de051

intel(r)

celeron(R) CPU 2.53 GHZ

512 MB OF RAM.



and about 2 days ago i went on utube and watched a video on how to make ur pc faster. i had to change the paging file or virtual memory.

its in here: my computer%26gt;properties%26gt;advanced%26gt;performance settings%26gt;advanced%26gt;virtual memory%26gt;change, and i changed it to what it told me in the vid, but after when ever i turn on my pc, it takes like 10 minutes for it to turn on. and also when i ran task manager, in performance tab the page file usage history graph never went higher that 500 mb. now im looking at it and its 1.55 gb, almost full. i dnt remember what the previous setting were b4 i changed them.



can someone help me set it back to what it was or @ least close to waht it was please?



THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!A really important pc question?
ok try a system restore restore your computer to before you changed it...oh and btw it aint good to mess round with that, if i was you i would buy more RAM :P



hope it works mate good luck :DA really important pc question?
do a system restore it will restore old settings
I have about the same dell and the video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. made me change it to 2000. I changed both boxes and my computer seems to run better.



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the original settings are 744 and 1488 maximum ( second box).
What you didn't say was how much available space you had on your hard disk. If you made the page file too big, the system won't have that drive space for use, and will run sluggishly.



The page file should (ideally) be about one-and-one-half times the amount of RAM. So, yours should be 1.6 GB. that's what you should reset the page file to. Then reboot the machine.



If you want to improve the performance of the computer to improve, add more RAM. RAM is cheap and is one of the easiest upgrades you can give a PC.
lol wow. Don't change those things unless you have at least a basic understanding of them. What works for one computer may not work for someone else.



Anyway, don't bother with system restore or anything, just go back to where you changed it in the first place and there should be an option somewhere along the lines of ';let windows manage my virtual memory'; or something similar. Just select that, that's what it was in the first place. Should fix everything. If not, you changed something else too and didn't notice.



btw, I second what the guy above me said. Buy more ram. It's cheap and easy to install and it'll improve your speed much more than any tweaking could ever do.
If you make the virtual memory file too large then the PC will slow down.

Unless you have a second hard drive it is best to let Windows manage the virtual memory. With a second hard drive you can increase your computers performance by switching the virtual memory to the other drive.

Virtual memory is much slower than RAM, so the more RAM you install the better your performance will be.
Once you've done the system restore thing like everybody's told you, and you've promised to think twice before doing what you've seen on YouTube (I;m guessing that the YT vid wasn't using the exact same machine as you've got), go to Crucial and get more RAM. Celerons, clock speed notwithstanding, aren't buikt for speed. You can help by getting more RAM - according to Dell, you can get up to 2GB, and one GB will set you back about $50. Graphics cards are probably not going to help you - I didn't see any mention of an AGP bus.



Clear up your HD - it should not exceed 85% of capacity. Once you've cleared, defrag.