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 always be the fastest so by putting your swap file in another partition on the same hard drive u have relegated the swap file to a slower area of the disk thereby decreasing speed minimally 2)some of us think by putting the swap file on another partition we reduce/eliminate fragmentation, i say try this right click my computer on the desktop,properties, go to performance, virtual memory, then put the swap file on your first partition then restart, go over to the partition where u just removed the swap file from and try to defragment whoa did u see how many %fragmented? Also do u know that when defragmenting, windows 9x/Me does not defragment the swap file for most of us who dont have software to defragment our swap file on our hard disks please (those who have only one partition (C:) try this u most have enough ram at least 16mb (but it works on my 8mb laptop) right click my computer on the desktop, properties, go to performance, virtual memory disable virtual memory, the computer would hala and tell you of the consequences, ignore it. REBOOT IMMEDIATELY!! then while rebooting press F8 until u get to a boot options screen, select safe mode which would load minimal drivers then go defragment C:\ it would defragment the whole hard drive swap file inclusive. after defragging go over and enable virtual memory settings like before then reboot normally your computer should be a little happier now!