wanderer: nicely put... Incidentally I didn't read the link/ref I posted; 'twas more a "have a look-see/trawl" out there to see how why etc. of pagefiles...; that so as to enourage Warhammer" to also dig/research a little into what's out there...; was offered on the fly When I dun my mcse aeons ago (NT4 version - remember NT4...) there was great emphasis on putting said file (on a workstation installation) on a separate drive (if possible); putting it into a separate partition on the same drive as the OS was not perceived as of any performance benefit - yet many advocate it (still)... It was a point of philosophical discussion as regards fixing max/min size of said file; but the general concensus was to set the limits - regardless of its location. Also the issue of adequate RAM and access rate versus pagefile access was something one required to understand when dealing with performance etc... Sadly much of the relevant info does seem to be less promoted/understood these daze by many "out there"...

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wanderer - If I were a newbie, that might have been the cause. You lose your bet. trvlr - If the solution is to STFW and RTFM then what is the purpose of this forum? ;) Besides, from what I've found so far, applying the "STFW" technique, most explanations do not teach me anything new. The rest are just useless mambo jumbo, whose writers should be executed in the town square, for all to see and fear :)

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wanderer... Occasionally I feel it useful to encourage "folks" to have trawl before (and whilst) posting... as frequently the answer is "out there" already and in detail. In the process they frequently can/will learn a lot re' the topic; and also about just what is "out there and available"... I would disagree that much of what is "out there" is mumbo-jumbo; there is wealth of useful, accurate info; and not infrequently one may find oneself referrred to info posted at "this" forum... Frequently the regulars here advise a given poster to do a little trawling re' their problem as posted; and they also offer solutions too in parallel to the suggested trawls... Re' - " most explanations do not teach me anything new"... Whilst that may be true for you and many others (here and elsewhere), there are many who lack your level of knowledge/experience etc. and thus those "explanations" may well be of (great) value to them... The value one places on information is frequently based on the situation, one's level of understanding at the moment in question? If it fixes the problem and you didn't know it previously then it's perceived as valuable and prized highly. If it doesn't and you may already know that provided info.. then naturally one may regard that information somewhat less? The novice/less well-informed may frequently arrive at forums/fora various in search of help; frequently do not realise that a trawl is also useful to do - in parallel to forum advice. Much useful/accurate/detailed info is "out there"; and it's wise/useful to know where it is, and how to access and use it. Often a given forum response time may be out of kilter with the posters time zone. Thus a (parallel) trawl may provide solutions/resources that may transcend that time-difference and help the resolve the problem sooner... "Finally" - it is not unknown for info "out there" to require clarification... It isn't all as well written etc. as it might be; although much of it is well done and accurate etc. ("wot is writ is not alway wot is red/understood..." ) Thus forums/fora like this are useful for clarification etc... and perhaps/frequently input based on more personal experience.

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trvlr - OK man, you've just written like 1K words, just to state the obvious. And to support your point, I've stumbled across this forum after about an hour of STFW. I was (and still am) hoping to find here a better solution then doing what I've already tried (so many times... :< ). Maybe there is something I'm overlooking, or maybe windows XP is just crap when it comes to using page files in a non-ordinary way, although MS themselves encourage people to set the page file on a different HDD and to use as many HDD's as possible.

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I don't see what the problem is! I have 3 HDDs and all I had to do was select No Paging File for 2 of them. Then I deselected System Managed Size in the chosen drive, entered the size and clicked Set. Ridgewayranger

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mmm - 'guess I did go on a little (he sed as an understatement)... I felt that wanderer (for whom I have a high regard) was a little overly down on suggesting trawls etc; and the results of such... We don't always agree on which/what/why etc... but that's the value/benefit of a forum; a free exchange of ideas and possible (re)solutions - without rancour, prejudice, offence... And it was very kwiet morning at work, so I had tyme to ruminate... Incidentally I think I found this (very excellent) forum via a trawl in the early days of yore. It's one three I put in time with - this being the main one.

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ridgewayranger - When I set "no paging file" on the boot HDD, on the next boot windows still allocates a huge page file on it. Setting a page file on another HDD, other than the boot does not seem to work since windows does not use it (and uses the one it forces on the boot HDD).

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