How To Create virtual memory to speed up your pc

When your physical RAM fills up, it
desperately needs another kind of
temporary storage to be able to
run your applications. Therefore, it
creates a virtual memory right on
your hard disk to satisfy that need.
Data that is stored on the hard
disk is stored in sectors, however,
to the Memory Management Unit
(MMU) of the Operating System, it
is seen as though it is main
memory. Before an application
requests to run, the swap file is
checked and if the data required
by the application is found there,
then it copies it over to memory
first before executing it. Virtual
memory is an excellent way of
utilizing more memory than is
physically available. Moving and
swapping data between the
physical memory and hard disk via
the system bus is managed by the
MMU as are the logical and
physical addresses of each block of
data.
Windows determines how much
hard disk space to allocate to
virtual memory. The good news is
that you can make your system
faster by manually altering your
Virtual Memory settings. Follow
these steps to get a noticeably
faster PC:
1. Right click on My Computer
and select Properties from the
drop-down menu. Then switch to
the performance tab and select
Virtual Memory.
2. Next, make sure the Let me
specify my own virtual memory
settings is selected.
3. From the Hard-Disk drop down
list select your fastest hard disk if
you have more than one.
4. Finally, make sure the
Maximum & Minimum numbers
are the same. To get the optimum
number, multiply your system RAM
by 2.5 and then put that number
for the Maximum and Minimum
tabs. For example, if you have
64MB of Ram, your Maximum and
Minimum would be 160!