I have a question about Stop 
Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:
.

I only have 1 hard disk 40gb.  Should I create an exclusive partition for the Swapfile? 
I have 512mb ram.
Or should I leave it in the C:\system drive?  
Size should be 1280mb...?

Thanks.

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There are problems sometimes when moving the page file. I believe that is the swap file you're talking about, you can render the entire OS broken, by doing it incorrectly, with 512 ram, you shouldn't worry about it anyway. You won't see any noticeable performance increase. Regards Lazerus


On Wednesday, January 2, 2002 at 5:29 pm, John wrote:

>I have a question about Stop 
>Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:
.
>
>I only have 1 hard disk 40gb.  Should I create an exclusive partition for the Swapfile? 
>I have 512mb ram.
>Or should I leave it in the C:\system drive?  
>Size should be 1280mb...?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>

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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


On Wednesday, January 2, 2002 at 6:18 pm, Lazerus wrote:
>There are problems sometimes when moving the page file. I believe that is the swap
>file you're talking about, you can render the entire OS broken, by doing it incorrectly,
>with 512 ram, you shouldn't worry about it anyway. You won't see any noticeable
>performance increase.
>
>Regards
>
>Lazerus
>
>
>

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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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Actually, that's not really true. If you put the pagefile on its own partition, only that partition will become fragmented as the file is being thrashed. Even with tons of memory, you're going to have some page file usage unless you turn it off. However, the best way to optimize the performance of your system in terms of virtual memory is to set the initial size the same as the final size. This keeps the file from being grown as needed. Also, those who run with no virtual memory are crazy. Virtual memory is a safety net. If you have a leaky app or a resource hogging app running on your system your machine will BSOD as soon as physical memory is eaten up.


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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If you create the separate partition dedicated only to the pagefile, can you "render" it invisible to the normal user. Want to make sure in My Computer or Windows Explorer that the user of the machine isn't tempted to play around with the drive. Thought you may be able to set permissions only to System, or something similar, but am not familiar enough with Win2K to know all the repercussions.


On Monday, June 2, 2003 at 12:49 pm, Chris wrote:
>Actually, that's not really true. If you put the pagefile on its own partition,
>only that partition will become fragmented as the file is being thrashed. Even
>with tons of memory, you're going to have some page file usage unless you turn it
>off.
>
>However, the best way to optimize the performance of your system in terms of virtual
>memory is to set the initial size the same as the final size. This keeps the file
>from being grown as needed.
>
>Also, those who run with no virtual memory are crazy. Virtual memory is a safety
>net. If you have a leaky app or a resource hogging app running on your system your
>machine will BSOD as soon as physical memory is eaten up.
>
>

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