"can change the file place to another drive..."
yes, highly recommended.

"should i reformat the fat32 drive to be ntfs..."
doesn't matter.

"do i really need to have it as 1.5 times bigger the ram is, or can i make it smaller..."
Most people continue to say yes, I don't see why - with enough RAM you don't need 
a swap file at all.

"My common sense says if isn't there, it won't run there..."
You should look here:
http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm






On Sunday, June 15, 2003 at 7:15 am, Miss X wrote:
>I have a question about Stop 
>Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:

>
>
>I have few questions considering the swap file size. I'm soon to have 768 ram, and 
>i will need to change the paging file size then. I'd need to know whether i can 
change 
>the file place to another drive, and most off all.. off the ntfs to fat32 drive? 
>Or, should i reformat the fat32 drive to be ntfs first? Also, do i really need to 
>have it as 1.5 times bigger the ram is, or can i make it smaller? My harddrive (partitied 
>into 4 drives) is 30 gb 5400rpm, motherboard single processor tyan trinity kt-a, 
>can i even move the paging file to another drive without ending up crashing?  Help 
>would be very much needed and apprecciated:=)
>Something also for  who have disabled the indexing service in xp through admin tools... 
>check into add/remove programs, windows part, remove it off your system as well, 
>if it  is installed. My common sense says if isn't there, it won't run there. (? 
>Talking about windows, everything impossible is possible?)
>

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