Hey all, im always downloading so i leave my pc on most of the time, i havent shut it down for around a year (excluding upgrades) however i always need to reset as of large page file, i know that its normal for the page file to accumulate over time but i was wondering if there is any utility that can manage your PF as having a large PF downgrades performance. What if i disable the PF, would that be better performance?

See: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/computer_maint_perf_mgmt.mspx and: http://www.theeldergeek.com/paging_file.htm Beauty of the high sierra, and she's looking out for you.

COMPUTER SPEED AND PERFORMANCE: Com puter Speed and Performance May Decrease HOW TO: Set Performance Options in Windows XP How to Configure Paging Files for Optimization and Recovery in Windows XP How to Clear the Windows Paging File at Shutdown How To Move the Paging File in Windows XP RAM, Virtual Memory, Pagefile and all that stuff

I have run with no pagefile for two years now with 768megs of ram. My system screams So read all that and then try running with no pagefile.

Strictly speaking Virtual Memory is always in operation and cannot be ‘turned off’. What is meant by such wording is ‘set the system to use no page file space at all’. This would waste a lot of the RAM. The reason is that when programs ask for an allocation of Virtual memory space, they may ask for a great deal more than they ever actually bring into use - the total may easily run to hundreds of megabytes. These addresses have to be assigned to somewhere by the system. If there is a page file available, the system can assign them to it - if there is not, they have to be assigned to RAM, locking it out from any actual use. More reading http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm Your head will be battered lol Alan56 Any fool can make a rule and any fool will follow it www.wankerdrivers.com