William Lurie wrote:
I think I need to increase size of swap file. I have a monstrous file
(apparently greater than 1 GB) to download and it is taking
intolerably long. Using XP Home/ SP3 with 1.5 GB RAM. Plenty of empty
space on the hard drive.

Advice regarding the problem and how to increase swap file (if that's
the solution) will be appreciated.

The size of the pagefile has nothing to do with download speeds.

For most XP users, System Managed size is mor than adequate. FWIW, I
have 2GB of RAM in my PC. I use System Managed size. The current
allocation is 2046MB (about the same amount of physical RAM).

If you have performace problems and not enough RAM (and assuming there
is no malware or any legit program hogging memory), then the surefire
way to increase performance (although not download rates) is to add more
RAM.

If you want to download large files quicker, you need to get a faster
Internet connection.

More info on virtual memory:

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php