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Relocate My Swap File
Name: RickShaw Date: January 8, 2002 at 21:27:38 Pacific
Comment:
Is it possible to relocate my swap file to its own partition? Is there any reason for doing this? How big should the partition be? Last question is how do i do it?
Name: RickShaw Date: January 8, 2002 at 21:44:49 Pacific
Reply:
I found all the information in trevs post here http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/18106.html number 12.
I have about 3 GB of space on a partition i created for the swap file. Should i use it all? TIA
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Response Number 2
Name: Kristofer Date: January 9, 2002 at 03:54:23 Pacific
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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 the drive is data backup. I like to have swap on a sepreate partition so it's not in the way of the defraging program. and I find it does speed it up somewhat. If I remember correctly it's under control panel | system | advanced | vitural memory.
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