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Windows System Registry Tutorial
Windows System Registry stores lots of information for system and application configurations and settings. However not all of these settings can be modified using the provided configuring tools. You have to find the right place in the system registry in order to modify the hidden settings. The tutorial helps you to find and edit registry keys and values that are most commonly used.
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\DisablePagingExecutive
Disable system kernel-mode drivers and kernel-mode code disk paging
Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\
Value Name : DisablePagingExecutive
Value Data Type: DWORD
Default Value:0
Description: This registry value allows you to specify whether kernel-mode drivers and kernel-mode system code can be paged to disk when not in use. When the value is set 0, Drivers and system code can be paged to disk as needed. When the value is set to 1, drivers and system code always remain in physical memory. Since it prevents reading code or data from disk, it will improves performance on system with a lot of physical memory. By default this value is 0 and kernel-mode system code is paged to disk when not in use.
How to edit registry value?
- Click Start > Run, type "regedit" and press OK to open Registry Editor.
- In the left pane, expand the registry tree to locate the sub key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\.
- In the right pane, double click on the value DisablePagingExecutive to open the "Edit DWORD value" dialog.
- Change the Value data to 1 to disable paging executive feature.
- Click OK button to save the change.
Notice: To make changes to this entry effective, you must restart the system. Windows Registry contains some critical system settings as well as many trivial application data, so make sure that you know what they really means before you modify any registry values.
