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: Look at point 12 of this post http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/18106.html If you have the room to do it, there IS a performance boos...
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: I'd say yes and no. Depened if you want to squeze ever posible ms out of program load time. I have a second hard drive with the swap file on a 800meg ...
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: Hi Take control of the swap file by manually setting it's size in system properties. Then defrag using Speed Disk. This will optimize the Swap File. ...
Summary: The swap file is managed by Windows unless you move it to a separate partition on a second hard drive devoted to this only.You need to defrag the comp...
Summary: No matter how much I increase the RAM on my friend's machine the swap file always remains between 40-50MB. That's how big it is when the machine boots...
Summary: I'm not sure how ME handles swap files but as a rule of thumb, a swap file need only be 2 and a half times the amount of RAM on your sustem. In W95 an...
Summary: the more space and the more Ram you have the bigger the swap file can be. with to 256megs of Ram and the swap file on a partion with a few free Gigs I...
Summary: Thanks, all I had been running with a fixed size no problems, just that I saw a few tweak sites mentioning that the swap file was a left over from the...
Summary: Erin, With the 512MB ram you don't need a large swap file, so I would let windows take care of it. I only have 128MB ram so I set my min/max at 320MB ...
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: If you let Windows handle it, Windows keeps reducing and extending the file dynamically as needed, and it puts some of it at the front end of your har...
Summary: The hard disk of my computer has two partitions, namely C and D. I intend to create a permanent swap file on the D drive. What will happen to the exis...
Summary: The Swap file is usually in the root of C drive, but if you have more than one drive or partition, you can select to put it in other drive.It is named...
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: 1st I have some settings in my (*Windows*) config.ini Heres whats in my config.ini: [don't load] snd.cpl=no joystick.cpl=no midimap.drv=no What do the...
Summary: Just recently I've noticed how slow my boot up is. I looked and sure enough programs that have been unziped into C:\Windows\Temp that have been in...
Summary: something to considor before you leap though. What were the extra partitions formatted to eg. fat32 or ntfs? 2000 they say has better security and wor...
Summary: Defrag sucks, if for no other rason than it takes so long. However, most compaints I've seen have been about defrag restarting over and over, because ...
Summary: sounds like your system doesn't have enougth memory so ME is resizeing the swap file so that you can run your apps, games etc. Solution:Get a bigger h...
Summary: You were playing around with changing swap files at one time and left one out there. They both should be named WIN386.SWP. One should be in the C:\ an...
Summary: As itmdtr stated... when you stick in the Linux disk and start setup, it should give you the option of setting up some partitions. Unless you are runn...
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...
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