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Windows help suggests putting the Page file onto the fastest drive or the one
that has less use, which in my case is my D drive with 17GB free space. I have created a Page file on D and set it to Windows recommended limits, what I need to know is how to remove the Page file from the C drive and ensure that the system sees the Page file on D. Can someone advise me? TIA John |
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John wrote:
Windows help suggests putting the Page file onto the fastest drive or the one that has less use, which in my case is my D drive with 17GB free space. I have created a Page file on D and set it to Windows recommended limits, what I need to know is how to remove the Page file from the C drive and ensure that the system sees the Page file on D. Can someone advise me? TIA John Here's a link: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;314105 Straight from the MS knowledge base Moving the Paging File 1. In Control Panel, double-click System. 2. Click the Advanced tab. 3. Click Settings under Performance. 4. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Change under Virtual Memory. 5. Select the new drive that you want to use to store the paging file. 6. Set Initial Size (MB) and Maximum size. For the initial size, Microsoft recommends that you use the recommended value in the Total Page File Size for All Drives box. 7. Click Set, and then click OK twice. 8. Click Restart Now. Note that if you move the paging file from the system partition, Windows cannot write debug information to the disk if a Stop error occurs. |
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:51:03 -0800, John wrote:
Windows help suggests putting the Page file onto the fastest drive or the one that has less use, which in my case is my D drive with 17GB free space. I have created a Page file on D and set it to Windows recommended limits, what I need to know is how to remove the Page file from the C drive and ensure that the system sees the Page file on D. Can someone advise me? TIA John If you're bored and want something to do and if D is a second drive (not a second partition on the same drive), go for it. Depending on what programs you run, you might see a slight improvement in performance. More likely, you will not notice any difference. -- Sharon F MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User |
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Others have given you instructions. Understand, this is only recommended if
you have a second hard drive. In other words, there is only a benefit by placing the pagefile on a separate hard drive as opposed to placing it on a separate partition on the same drive. -- Michael Solomon MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Backup is a PC User's Best Friend DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/ "John" wrote in message ... Windows help suggests putting the Page file onto the fastest drive or the one that has less use, which in my case is my D drive with 17GB free space. I have created a Page file on D and set it to Windows recommended limits, what I need to know is how to remove the Page file from the C drive and ensure that the system sees the Page file on D. Can someone advise me? TIA John |
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If the D: drive is on a different controller, as would be the case with a
SATA drive or a different IDE connector, then you might see some gain. The advantage is only gained if you can achieve asychronious reading and writing. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "John" wrote in message ... Windows help suggests putting the Page file onto the fastest drive or the one that has less use, which in my case is my D drive with 17GB free space. I have created a Page file on D and set it to Windows recommended limits, what I need to know is how to remove the Page file from the C drive and ensure that the system sees the Page file on D. Can someone advise me? TIA John |
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Colin Barnhorst typed: If the D: drive is on a different controller, as would be the case with a SATA drive or a different IDE connector, then you might see some gain. The advantage is only gained if you can achieve asychronious reading and writing. There's also a gain, or least a potential gain, by putting it a physical drive that's less used than C:. That's because by doing so you can reduce or eliminate the head movement to and from the page file. But in these days of very cheap RAM, most computers have enough RAM so that the page file is seldom used at all. If that's the case, it hardly matters where it's located. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup Windows help suggests putting the Page file onto the fastest drive or the one that has less use, which in my case is my D drive with 17GB free space. I have created a Page file on D and set it to Windows recommended limits, what I need to know is how to remove the Page file from the C drive and ensure that the system sees the Page file on D. Can someone advise me? TIA John |
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I have to remember to add that to my response in the future!:-)
-- Michael Solomon MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Backup is a PC User's Best Friend DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/ "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... If the D: drive is on a different controller, as would be the case with a SATA drive or a different IDE connector, then you might see some gain. The advantage is only gained if you can achieve asychronious reading and writing. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "John" wrote in message ... Windows help suggests putting the Page file onto the fastest drive or the one that has less use, which in my case is my D drive with 17GB free space. I have created a Page file on D and set it to Windows recommended limits, what I need to know is how to remove the Page file from the C drive and ensure that the system sees the Page file on D. Can someone advise me? TIA John |
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Ditto
-----Original Message----- On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:51:03 -0800, John wrote: Windows help suggests putting the Page file onto the fastest drive or the one that has less use, which in my case is my D drive with 17GB free space. I have created a Page file on D and set it to Windows recommended limits, what I need to know is how to remove the Page file from the C drive and ensure that the system sees the Page file on D. Can someone advise me? TIA John If you're bored and want something to do and if D is a second drive (not a second partition on the same drive), go for it. Depending on what programs you run, you might see a slight improvement in performance. More likely, you will not notice any difference. -- Sharon F MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User . |
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Just how did you create the Page File on D: and set the
limits as recommended? I ask because the only way to do this is to use the application (right click My Computer, select Properties, Advanced, Performance, Advanced and if you did that you'd have seen the answer to your question. -- The people think the Constitution protects their rights; But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome. "MGGP" wrote in message ... | Ditto | | -----Original Message----- | On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:51:03 -0800, John wrote: | | Windows help suggests putting the Page file onto the | fastest drive or the one | that has less use, which in my case is my D drive with | 17GB free space. | | I have created a Page file on D and set it to Windows | recommended limits, | what I need to know is how to remove the Page file | from the C drive and | ensure that the system sees the Page file on D. | | Can someone advise me? | | TIA | | John | | If you're bored and want something to do and if D is a | second drive (not a | second partition on the same drive), go for it. Depending | on what programs | you run, you might see a slight improvement in | performance. More likely, | you will not notice any difference. | | -- | Sharon F | MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User | . | |
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