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Putting the Swap file into a partition
Name: Dante Date: July 26, 2002 at 20:24:07 Pacific
Comment:
I have heard that putting the Swap file into lets say a 500mb partition of its own would speed the computer up but im not sure how to do this can someone please tell me what the swap file is and how do i put it in its own partition
Name: wawadave Date: July 26, 2002 at 22:12:07 Pacific
Reply:
if you culd put it there it would be interesting to see how much of an improvment you get
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Response Number 2
Name: deek Date: July 26, 2002 at 22:53:32 Pacific
Reply:
Dante I saw the same thing, if you have Norton and use speed disk it sets the swap file up at the start of the HD, same deal have a good day deek
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Response Number 3
Name: doncedars99 Date: July 27, 2002 at 01:13:01 Pacific
Reply:
Dante,
If you want to specify your own swap file then go to>my computer>properties>performance tab>virtual memory>put a dot in let me specify my own virtual memory settings>set the minimum and maximum to 500>click OK and reboot your computer.
And if you do have Norton then do response number 2
thebest2uDon
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Response Number 4
Name: mesich Date: July 27, 2002 at 06:45:41 Pacific
Name: JackG Date: July 27, 2002 at 09:22:44 Pacific
Reply:
With memory prices as low as they are, just up your system to at least 256MB. Then with Windows ME, the swapfile location (let Windows manage it) will make very little differance.
Summary: 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 fewe...
Summary: this one goes out to those of us who wrongly believe that putting your swap file on another partition on the same hard drive makes the computer faster these are my reasons 1) the first partition would...
Summary: I'd say yes and no. Depened if you want to squeze ever posible ms out of program load time. I have a second hard drive with the swap file on a 800meg partition (it only uses 400meg) and the rest of th...
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