Summary: I've changed the Pagefile location to drive D, and canceled it on drive C. Everything works OK, there's an new file on drive D, but the old one is sti...
Summary: Teesa, go to the control panel, click on System, then click on the Advanced Tab, then click Settings in the Performance box, the first setting button ...
Summary: If the performance changed with a pagefile change then you should add more physical memory (RAM). If your hard drive is fairly full the page file wil...
Summary: Right click on the "My computer" icon and left click on "Properties" (you can also get there if you go to Control Panel/System). Click on the "Advance...
Summary: I'm trying to improve the performance of my machine by reducing the pagefile size and moving it to seperate harddrives. When i change the settings in ...
Summary: 1) Should i keep a pagefile. Most people say windows was designed to use a page file, and thus recommend to keep it on. I've removed it, and I haven'...
Summary: It's a hidden file WindowsXP creates. There are many names for it. Like: Swapfile,Virtual Memory or Pagefile but all these things refer to the same th...
Summary: Did you do it this way ? http://www.pureperformance.com/js/showtip.asp?id=50 http://www.subzerotech.com/index/module/sz_articles_display/id/13/page/10...
Summary: Can I change the size on this file the hiberfil.sys? its almost a gig itself just like the pagefile.sys file was. Thank you very much for the help ear...
Summary: I have two partitions, XP is on C, win98 is on D. (I have to use 98 to burn cd's) Anyway I used Norton Speed Disk in 98 and moved XP's pagefile to th...
Summary: Thanks Eric, I unchecked hibernation and now my backup doesn't backup hibernation or pagefile. My first backup point is only 1 cd instead of 3 or 4. B...
Summary: Everytime I startup winXP, i get a error: "Limited Virtual Memory". It says windows created a temporary pagefile (20MB), and then shows me how to chan...
Summary: I am running XP Pro on a P4 2.2 GHz clone with 2GB RAM. I never use up all my RAM, and would prefer not to have any pagefile.sys, as it takes up nearl...
Summary: Pagefile equal to 1.5 or 2X is good. However there are other settings that will make your computer and hard disk much faster such as changing you HD ...
Summary: "since you are setting pagefile min and max why also do a separate partition for it?" I like to keep things nice and tidy. This way Windows can go to ...
Summary: a common mistake is not clicking on the SET button when making changes to the paging file. Two pagefiles on the same disk slows your system down. fYI...
Summary: for some reason i have no pagefile in xp, and when i try to change the settings they are never implemented. i don't know what could possibly causing t...
Summary: Go to CONTROL PANEL > ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS >LOCAL SECURITY POLICY. Then to Local policies > SECURITY OPTIONS. Change the option to enable in 'Shutdown...
Summary: Uhm, yes...child's play. Changing the settings is not the problem. Having the system create the pagefile is. Please read above...everyone, administrat...
Summary: The problems started when I was trying to get around the Windows XP/Adobe Photoshop 7 issue. I dual boot Windows 98 and Windows XP. Drive C: - 2gb Win...
Summary: Apparently you can delete your pagefile.sys if you have it on another partition. Normally you would have to just right click My Computer, click Proper...
Summary: Hey Taco here's how to change the pagefile 1. Log on to the computer as Administrator. 2. Click Start, and then click Control Panel. 3. Click Perfor...
Summary: I don't mean to insult your intelligenge, but did you click the "set" button? I have in the past changed my pagefile settings and clicked OK on the di...
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