virtual memory management??

[Luizao]

This is what is going on, what happens is that I want to set the computer’s
virtual memory in my laptop in a removable disk, the disk is plug-in 24/7 to
one of the computer’s USB ports, It is a personal reason why I want to do it,
but my point is I went to the system properties applet, under the advance
tab, I clicked settings under performance and then I went to advance->
virtual memory “change” so I on drive C: set no paging file, and then I went
to D: and set no paging file as well, then I went to F: and set virtual
memory as system managed and clicked set, clicked ok couple times and then
the computer asked me to restart the system, which I did but much to my
surprise pagefile.sys was still in the C: drive, so I went to windows
registry found all entries for pagefile and made sure it was on F:, I found a
couple but still the pagefile is located in C: the hard drive I am trying to
set the virtual memory in is 60g, the size in the pagefile on C: is 1.48
gig, even though I have no paging file on C:, another thing that caught my
attention was that when I run disk defragmenter, and clicked on analyze and
read the report this is what it shows

Volume (C:)

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 0 bytes
Total fragments = 0

No page file size and this is what it shows for drive F:


Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 0 bytes
Total fragments = 0

No pagefile either, is there anything I am doing wrong?,
Is it possible to have the pagefile in other drive other than C:?

Thanks for your answers I appreciate it

[Jim]

"Luizao" > wrote in message
...
> This is what is going on, what happens is that I want to set the computer's
> virtual memory in my laptop in a removable disk, the disk is plug-in 24/7
> to
> one of the computer's USB ports, It is a personal reason why I want to do
> it,
> but my point is I went to the system properties applet, under the advance
> tab, I clicked settings under performance and then I went to advance->
> virtual memory "change" so I on drive C: set no paging file, and then I
> went
> to D: and set no paging file as well, then I went to F: and set virtual
> memory as system managed and clicked set, clicked ok couple times and then
> the computer asked me to restart the system, which I did but much to my
> surprise pagefile.sys was still in the C: drive, so I went to windows
> registry found all entries for pagefile and made sure it was on F:, I
> found a
> couple but still the pagefile is located in C: the hard drive I am trying
> to
> set the virtual memory in is 60g, the size in the pagefile on C: is 1.48
> gig, even though I have no paging file on C:, another thing that caught my
> attention was that when I run disk defragmenter, and clicked on analyze
> and
> read the report this is what it shows
>
> Volume (C:)
>
> Pagefile fragmentation
> Pagefile size = 0 bytes
> Total fragments = 0
>
> No page file size and this is what it shows for drive F:
>
>
> Pagefile fragmentation
> Pagefile size = 0 bytes
> Total fragments = 0
>
> No pagefile either, is there anything I am doing wrong?,
> Is it possible to have the pagefile in other drive other than C:?
>
> Thanks for your answers I appreciate it
>
It isn't possible to put the pagefile on a removable disk (as you found
out).
Jim

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Luizao wrote:

> This is what is going on, what happens is that I want to set the
> computer's virtual memory in my laptop in a removable disk, the disk
> is plug-in 24/7 to one of the computer's USB ports, It is a personal
> reason why I want to do it,


The reason why you want to do it doesn't matter, because it can't be done.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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Luizao wrote:
> This is what is going on, what happens is that I want to set the
> computer's virtual memory in my laptop in a removable disk, the disk
> is plug-in 24/7 to one of the computer's USB ports, It is a personal
> reason why I want to do it, but my point is I went to the system
> properties applet, under the advance tab, I clicked settings under
> performance and then I went to advance-> virtual memory "change" so I
> on drive C: set no paging file, and then I went to D: and set no
> paging file as well, then I went to F: and set virtual memory as
> system managed and clicked set, clicked ok couple times and then the
> computer asked me to restart the system, which I did but much to my
> surprise pagefile.sys was still in the C: drive, so I went to windows
> registry found all entries for pagefile and made sure it was on F:, I
> found a couple but still the pagefile is located in C: the hard drive
> I am trying to set the virtual memory in is 60g, the size in the
> pagefile on C: is 1.48 gig, even though I have no paging file on C:,
> another thing that caught my attention was that when I run disk
> defragmenter, and clicked on analyze and read the report this is what
> it shows
>
> Volume (C:)
>
> Pagefile fragmentation
> Pagefile size = 0 bytes
> Total fragments = 0
>
> No page file size and this is what it shows for drive F:
>
>
> Pagefile fragmentation
> Pagefile size = 0 bytes
> Total fragments = 0
>
> No pagefile either, is there anything I am doing wrong?,
> Is it possible to have the pagefile in other drive other than C:?
>
> Thanks for your answers I appreciate it

You cannot remove the pagefile from drive C: (boot drive). You can turn it
off, but windows will re-create it. What yhou do is set it to some small
size, say 100MB. Otherewise XP will keep recreating it.
Also, I don't believe you have have a swap file on a removable drive.

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