I was just curious as to what would be some acceptable values to set for the paging file? I would like to put it on another drive that I have, and manually set it. But when I did it before, my computer kept restarting itself. So could someone please tell me what values would be good for my system.

As Sabretooth The Wise said, 1.5-2.0 times the amount of ram you have is seen as the best size. That article that you read in PC World? (I read a similar sounding article in PCPlus) may have gleaned its info from Black Viper's site www.blackviper.com. Of all the useful suggestions he makes for maximizing the performance of your XP machine, the modification of your Paging File, while a good idea in theory, has little or no effect in practice. You haven't said how large your hard disks are. Your original problems may have developed because they had become too full. Can you afford to permanently give your paging file approximately 700MB to use. I would go to Black Vipers site first and follow his advice for disabling all the services you don't need. It might make enough difference to make changing your automatic Page File unneccessary. May the Force be with you, whatever path you choose.

XP does a good job of managing the paging file on its own (better than past Windows operating systems. But if you want to do it manually, the standard settings would be 1.5 times the size of your RAM. In your case that would be 576 minimum and maximum (384 MB times 1.5. Solarian

What I've found best is to change the pagefile size on "C" to say 150mb's, AFTER you create a pagefile on the second hard drive of at least 1 1/2X your ram. I run 150mb's on C, and 2560 on E which is my second drive.

So would it be fine to set the min/max to 576 on my other drive...and set C to no page file at all? My C: drive has 8GB free, and my other drive, H, has 12GB free.