re: Question regarding ''Swapfile'' for Windows2000
Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 7:07 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jeff
(1 messages posted)
If you have 512 meg of ram why do you even need a swap file? I have 384 meg of ram
and am running 2000 pro with no swap file what so ever....
In order to do this you still have to have the ability to boot to DOS (fat32?) use
the command....
copy con pagefile.sys
Tell it you would like to overwrite existing file....
Then Type "This is my page file"
Then use the attrib.exe program from win 98 with the command....
attrib pagefile.sys +r +s
which makes it a read only system file which Winblows can't overwrite!
PLEASE NOTE.... every time you start winblows you will get an error which says that
there in no pagefile, click OK and carry on...
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 7:06 am, Carel wrote:
>John, u shouldn't put the swap file on the same hard driveon a different partition,
>it won't make any performance change, simply because the information is still travelling
>through the same IDE cable, if u bought 1.5 or 2.0 gig drive and put that on ur
second
>IDE cable and slaved it under ur cd/cdrw/dvd or what ever u might have there and
>followed the steps in this link
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article07-035
>u shouldnt have a problem, otherwise dont bother just moving the swap file to another
>partion on the same drive, u wont see a performance change
>Carel
>
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