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About XP Swap File
Name: Ivan Date: April 6, 2003 at 09:07:23 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: Celeron 600 Mhz; 256 RAM
Comment:
I have 2 partitions: C:/ and D:/ C:/ is NTFS while D:/ is FAT32 FAT32 is faster than NTFS. Will my system perform faster if I move the swap file to D:/ which is FAT32 ?
Name: crazythunder Date: April 6, 2003 at 19:15:53 Pacific
Reply:
you're better off either way putting the swap on a seperate partition\drive. and keeping the min\max size the same will keep it from getting fragmented.
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Response Number 3
Name: dereke Date: April 6, 2003 at 19:41:05 Pacific
Reply:
Go here and learn all you need to about swap file.
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