It's also a good place to put the print spooler, if you use it. You will
not get any benefit from the second drive for the page file if both drives
are IDE using the same IDE controller. You will get some if the drives are
on different controllers (different ribbon cables).

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Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
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"Richard" wrote in message
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"Yabbadoo" wrote in message
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Just heard an interesting suggestion I've not seen/heard before -

If a pc has two physical hdd's - transfer the "swap" file from C: to the
2nd HDD - this speeds up a pc.

Anyone know of this - and, does it work? If so, How does one transfer the
swap file ?

Len


To transfer or change the swap file. Open system properties-
advanced-performance options- advanced- virtual memory and change location
or sizes of page files.

I have not noticed any performance benefits in terms of speed. However as
I have the Windows page file on the second hard drive in it's own
partition I have never had to de-fragment this volume and the main drive
hardly ever needs defragmenting. In addition I have set up separate
"Scratch files" to take care of the huge working files that can be
generated when using Adobe Photoshop.

Richard.