Boot Defragment Faster Booting

a very important feature in Microsoft windows xp is the ability to do a boot defragment.
this basically means that all boot files are placed next to each other on the disk drive to allow for faster booting. by defaultthis option is enabled but some upgrade users have reported that it isnt on their setup.
1. start regedit. [go to run, type "regedit" and hit enter]
2. navigate to hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftdfrgbootoptimizefunction
3. select enable from the list on the right.
4. right on it and select modify.
5. change the value to y to enable and n to disable.
6. reboot your computer.

How to tell if you need more RAM

Press the Ctrl? + alt + delete key. now click on task manager and select the performance tab. look just under midway down on the right and you will see a box labeled ?physical memory (k). read the total right under that. that is your installed memory (in kilobytes). if you want to convert it to MB, divide it by 1024. now look at the box to its left that says commit charge (k). the total there will be how much memory is being used. you will also see a peak under that total which tells the highest amount of memory used since the last reboot. if the peak is lower than the physical memory total, then you don?t need additional memory. if the total commit charge is higher than the physical memory total, then additional memory would give you a significant performance boost because of how much of the memory your system is using with the operating system and applications.