Salut/Hi Ron Martell,

le/on Sun, 20 Feb 2005 01:57:56 GMT, tu disais/you said:-

Ian Hoare wrote:


1. If you do this, you need to keep at least a small portion of
the page file on C:.

Why?

Simple reason is because Windows just seems to be happier when there
is one.
[snip]

Windows does is to dump the RAM content to the page file and then
rename it. Much faster than creating a new file.

Thanks for the explanation, Ron.

I have 512Mb RAM, and often have 4-5 different applications open at the same
time. Apart from the obvious method of messing about with the swap file to
see what happens, is there any simple way of checking any system parameters
to see whether changing the settings would be likely to benefit me? I know
that I often had memory problems when running Win 98 on the same machine.


Get the free Page File usage utility

[snip]
and use it to see how much actual usage is being made of the page file.

Excellent information. Thanks very much indeed.

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