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Very basic questions- pagefile and delete My Documents
Like to know how to control the size of pagefile and what a decent
setting would be. Mine is over a gig on a 9 gig partition. I have almost 767meg memory. I try to delete My Documents from windows explorer (under the desktop). i moved it to my E: drive but every time I delete the shortcuts, they return. I got rid of it on my desktop using tweakui, but can I get rid of it for good in explorer? And when it is safe, if ever, to delete all the $xxx update files from windows? Second day with xp, so bear with me. (First day was a bear. Three installs before I got it where I wanted it. Last was a clean install to a formatted partition. The best info I got was from western digital's website on how to do it.) Any pointer to a good website for newbees would be appreciated. GA -- My address is spoofed, so do not reply directly. |
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Very basic questions- pagefile and delete My Documents
Hi Gordon,
Like to know how to control the size of pagefile and what a decent setting would be. Mine is over a gig on a 9 gig partition. I have almost 767meg memory. Unless you need a full memory dump on boot failure for debugging, you can reduce the initial size to ~100MB. Go to the Control Panel/System/Advanced tab, click on performance settings. On the advanced tab, click change. You can change the settings on the second tab so that the initial size is 100MB, but do not set a maximum. Click set, then use apply/ok to get back out and reboot. If you find that your pagefile regularly grows larger than the initial size, you might consider increasing the startup size. Read more on XP's VM he http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm I try to delete My Documents from windows explorer (under the desktop). i moved it to my E: drive but every time I delete the shortcuts, they return. I got rid of it on my desktop using tweakui, but can I get rid of it for good in explorer? No, you can move it as you have discovered, but you can never delete this system folder or it's mirrors. And when it is safe, if ever, to delete all the $xxx update files from windows? Whenever you are satisfied that you will never need to uninstall that particular update. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Gordon Abbot" wrote in message ... Like to know how to control the size of pagefile and what a decent setting would be. Mine is over a gig on a 9 gig partition. I have almost 767meg memory. I try to delete My Documents from windows explorer (under the desktop). i moved it to my E: drive but every time I delete the shortcuts, they return. I got rid of it on my desktop using tweakui, but can I get rid of it for good in explorer? And when it is safe, if ever, to delete all the $xxx update files from windows? Second day with xp, so bear with me. (First day was a bear. Three installs before I got it where I wanted it. Last was a clean install to a formatted partition. The best info I got was from western digital's website on how to do it.) Any pointer to a good website for newbees would be appreciated. GA -- My address is spoofed, so do not reply directly. |
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Very basic questions- pagefile and delete My Documents
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Gordon Abbot typed: Like to know how to control the size of pagefile and what a decent setting would be. Mine is over a gig on a 9 gig partition. I have almost 767meg memory. Unless you run very memory-demanding programs, with 767MB of RAM, 1GB of page file is way more than you need. I would reduce the starting value to 100-200MB and leave the maximum large, so it can grow if it ever needs to. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup |
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Very basic questions- pagefile and delete My Documents
Gordon Abbot wrote:
Like to know how to control the size of pagefile and what a decent setting would be. Mine is over a gig on a 9 gig partition. I have almost 767meg memory. See www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm -- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit) |
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