Windows retains some internal performance settings carried over from the days when RAM was expensive. Today they're obsolete and even counterproductive. For example, in My Computer/Properties/Performance/File System, the Typical role is usually Desktop Computer. But if your PC has more than 32MB of RAM, it'll operate slightly faster if you select Network Server even if it isn't really a server. (The Network Server setting uses a little more RAM for various disk buffers and caches to speed disk operations.) For most systems with abundant RAM, it makes sense to use the server setting. By Tim Moczygemba, System Administrator |