Summary: What about setting youe second hard drive as the swap file with a minimum of 0 and a maximum equal to the size of the drive? I have a second hard dri...
Summary: You'll probably get as many different answers as you get people posting. IMHO a) Do not disable VM. b) Set VM to 2x memory c) Make it a fixed size, i....
Summary: Ive been reading tons of posts here about swap file but every one says something different. Heres what i think ive learned so far. The swap file is WI...
Summary: this one goes out to those of us who wrongly believe that putting your swap file on another partition on the same hard drive makes the computer faster...
Summary: The only way to gain anything by moving the swap file would be to move it to another hard drive. Moving it to a virtual drive will give it its own fre...
Summary: JacKG - youre right. Just checked. Indeed the big one Swap file 259MB is at C:\ and not C:\Windows. Just deleted it and leaving it in recycle for time...
Summary: Trev, I have done all your tweaks, except moving the swap file to another Drive,C drive is 16.2, My D drive is 2.72 GB, but I use it for a Image of Dr...
Summary: Is it possible to relocate my swap file to its own partition? Is there any reason for doing this? How big should the partition be? Last question is ho...
Summary: yes, that is normal size... but with this size it can cause your operating system stalling while winows ME recalculates and rewrites the size of the f...
Summary: I am running Windows Me on 256MB DDR memory, originally following advice here I set my Swap File to a fixed 512 MB. However recently, I have seen va...
Summary: I have a PIII 700, 512 MRAM, 40 GHD and would like to get a common answer has to whether or not to let windows manage my swap file or let me choose. I...
Summary: I'm using cacheman to get this reading of 40-60MB paging file usage with nothing opened except the OS and some minor startup programs and a surplus o...
Summary: Kevin Brown, if you haven't had a look at Trev's post I'd start there. Also, another post by Renaissance Man might do you some good. 1800MB seems real...
Summary: Thanks all for your response. My system seems normal now ... i'm not sure if i have solved the problem or it's only that the virus(?) is sleeping? THi...
Summary: Hi, I used to have 64mb of ram with an AMD k6 2 proc + asus p5a mabo. Since the memery was barely enough my swap file became 71 mb. Now I have 128mb r...
Summary: After installing ME, I found the LOW DISK SPACE warning kept appearing. My drive dropped from 500MB to 1 MB free. Did the "reclaim disk space thing" -...
Summary: Iam curious if its best to leave the default swap file settings in Windows Me alone or to enter your own Min & Max. Also I forgot when in the systen...
Summary: I have about 3 differant veiws on what the settings in the system.ini file should be. I also had someone tell me that making those changes will not h...
Summary: Happy New Year Smuod! So it lost your email address, (my fault ... AGAIN! arrggh!) Anyway this is partly what we mentioned so I thought to see if I co...
Summary: I like your answer EC! Too many others are too adamant about doing something only one way. My vcache settings helped me to recover more of my resource...
Summary: Now that the amount of RAM we have in our machines is increasing do we still need to follow the 2.5 x RAM size formula for the size of our swap file. ...
Summary: I have heard that putting the Swap file into lets say a 500mb partition of its own would speed the computer up but im not sure how to do this can some...
Summary: I just installed a 40GHD with Norton SystemWorks 2001 (PIII 500, 320MRAM, Win Me) and can't seem to get Norton to manage my Swap File. When I select N...
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