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Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk'
Saturday, December 27, 2003 at 7:24 pm
Posted by Don Price (1 messages posted)

In reference to part 2, what would be wrong with setting your swap file to a fixed size and then rebooting in DOS to delete the swap file and then start up windows again? It seems to me this procedure would force windows to start the swap file from scratch with a clean slate and eliminate the defrag operation. Am I wrong? I have 256 megs RAM.

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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk'
Sunday, December 28, 2003 at 9:40 am
Posted by Gerry Kroll (1986 messages posted)

Your procedure would work. Another way of doing it is to disable the swap file altogether, start in Safe mode, do the Defrag, enable the swap file, and restart normally.


On Saturday, December 27, 2003 at 7:24 pm, Don Price wrote:
> In reference to part 2, what would be wrong with setting your swap file to a fixed
>size and then rebooting in DOS to delete the swap file and then start up windows
>again? It seems to me this procedure would force windows to start the swap file
>from scratch with a clean slate and eliminate the defrag operation. Am I wrong?
> I have 256 megs RAM.
>

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