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Moving Swap file to a partition
Name: Wobly Date: February 14, 2002 at 16:45:53 Pacific
Comment:
Could someone please tell me how I can move my swap file in the windows dir to a partition of it's own. The system won't let me move it. Thanx
Name: Huey Date: February 14, 2002 at 17:20:18 Pacific
Reply:
Go to system properties -> performance tab -> virtual memory -> hard disk.
Huey.
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Response Number 2
Name: Wobly Date: February 14, 2002 at 18:20:09 Pacific
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Thanx Huey
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Response Number 3
Name: The Kid Date: February 15, 2002 at 03:12:04 Pacific
Reply:
I posted the same question a few weeks back,and was advised against it.Just seems it is not worth the trouble/risk,according to my peers.
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Response Number 4
Name: Ozzie the Aussie Date: February 15, 2002 at 03:58:54 Pacific
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The only way to gain anything by moving the swap file would be to move it to another hard drive. Moving it to a virtual drive will give it its own free space, but you can do that without moving it simply by allocating a specific file size.
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Response Number 5
Name: Trev Date: February 15, 2002 at 12:10:59 Pacific
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Look at point 12 of this post http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/18106.html
If you have the room to do it, there IS a performance boost by doing this and there is also potentially fewer errors and less difficulty defragging, but it's not a mission critical adjustment. I put the swap file at the top of my hard disk using Norton Defrag after I set it at 1 Gb usually, or sometimes even 1.5Gb and I have definitely noticed improvements on some systems by doing this.
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