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29-May-06, 03:51 PM
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| Apex Elite Expert Tech  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: University of Leeds, UK
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  |  Pagefile question? Just a quick question, if I turn the windows page file off will it force windows to load all that crap into the ram or not? Should i increase the pagefile to its maximum or minimum or turn it off?
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30-May-06, 02:48 PM
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| PcApEX's PuNK ROckER  | automatic is good.. but cane be a nightmare... if for some reason you get a bad sector on the hdd and its in the part where the page file resides... it can cause a assload of issues... and its hard to track down.. what i would recommend... make the page file 2.5x times bigger then the amount of memory... and make the min size and max size the same...
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30-May-06, 03:00 PM
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 | and if available, locate your pagefile on a separate physical drive from the one on which you installed Windows. IE: Windows is installed on drive c:\ and you have another physical drive called d:\. Clear the pagefile from c:\ and place it all (2.5x physical memory) on drive d:\ ONLY do this if another PHYSICAL drive is available, not just another partition. Google for more detailed directions for Pagefile Optimization. -hartigan
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30-May-06, 04:31 PM
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| Thats a mighy good idea but unfortunatley I only have 1 drive and a couple of external hard disks so the USB bandwidth would be a major limiting factor. Cheers for the info though! 
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30-May-06, 05:45 PM
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 | This might be helpful... http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm
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31-May-06, 02:15 PM
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|  I use Tweak XP Pro to "tweak" my "system cache"... If you have 1GB or more of memory it really pays off to have a program like this "auto load" certain key parts of Windows XP into the ram..... can't really determine what it does..(which parts it loads into the memory)... and...it takes up a bit of time when loading Windows, of course, but when you multitask a lot, it really pays off, imho.... in my case it sure works out well! Since this is a commercial program... you need to ask yourself if you'd rather buy this or put your "pagefile" on some super speedy "Raptor".... it doesn't need to be big... just fast.... TDR
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