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XP swap file partition...good idea?
Name: chunky Date: January 29, 2002 at 10:08:57 Pacific
Comment:
I have read that creating a separate partition for the Windows swap file helps improve performance. Is this true of Windows XP? And, how exactly is this done? Thank U.
Name: Clark Date: January 29, 2002 at 10:33:35 Pacific
Reply:
Only if it's on a separate physical drive, and even then you'll probably see no noticable difference. XP does a very good job handling it on it's own so it's probably best to just leave it up to the OS.
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