Trev, I have done all your tweaks, except moving the swap file to another Drive,C drive is 16.2, My D drive is 2.72 GB, but I use it for a Image of Drive C, can I move the swap file to there and still keep my Image there I also back it up to cd.. If so In your instructions it says to set to atleast 150 MB , right now when I look at mine I have let windows do it, it says C:\14782MD, if I change it what do I put EXACTELY since I do not understand all that GB & MB stuff... All your tweaks have made my machine work great expecially after getting rid of the Compaq stuff...I do have plenty of room, I too like Adobe Photo Shop and do a lot of Picture scanning and stuff..I do have PowerQuest and Partition Magic, If I need to make another partition, right now I just left the partition on that was origional on there, so can change it. Sue

Hi Sue, I know you meant for Trev to reply but I just thought I should point out the recommended size for a swap file is two and a half times the amount of physical memory you have installed (RAM). That way you don't end up using disk space un-necessarily and also don't end up making it too small. PS: Trev rules... if all users bothered to read his tweaks half the problems wouldn't be on this forum...LOL Mark

Yes I know, they are good tweaks, I have 320 MB well 312 because of video, so thats 780 and can I put it on the d drive and still use the other part of d drive, the way it sounds in his inst made me think it had to be by itself.? no and should that be o min and 780 max.

2.5 is NOT the recommended guideline. http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/23995.html See this thread and check how much of your swapfile you are actually using with sysmon. With that much ram, moving the swapfile could likely be a complete waster of time.

As said many times before, there is no recommended guideline for swapfile use. Unless you have a compelling need, Sue, I really wouldn't bother moving the swapfile. If you are a power user, using very heavy graphics programs all day for business, with large image files being produced and many such files open at the same time, there can be a benefit to moving it; or sometimes if you are a heavy games user, there can be a performance difference if the swapfile is in a location on its own. But if your system is working fine, I would probably leave it where it is and let Windows handle it. If you really want to move it, there would be no problem having it on a partition with an image file, provided it IS an image file, not a clone of a partition. In the virtual memory box, if you want a minimum of 150 Mb you type 150, if you want 1Gb you type 1000; same goes for the maximum box if you are setting a maximum. I suggest you read other opinions in the links which are in the post before doing this. Glad the tweaks have helped your system. :-)

Thanks Trev, I was having some problems before, but not now, I will leave it, I do alot with Adobe Photo Shope and Photo Deluxe and keep files for that, but not on it all day doing graphics.... Thanks I think I should just let windows handel it, it says 14755MB now, guess it changes by itself?