plenty of RAM to handle whatever comes down the pike. You're doing your own programming and you don't know how to disable the Swap file? Perhaps you should be looking for more training in ways to manage your code so that the swap file ceases to become...

file disabled. Better yet is to put the line Conservativeswapfileusage=1 in the [386enh] portion of system.ini. This disables the swap file right up until memory is full. If you actually disable the swap file the system will hang once memory is full....

drive is not the direction I want to go. Yeah, yeah, I should have good backups . . . If you have more than 4GB you can disable the swap file or reduce it to like 1GB and put it on the OS drive. Thanks for the replies. Yes I think placing the swap file in...

to the Template XP system. 13) With Disk management, reassign U: with another letter (not possible if you did not disable the swap file previously like I said, because the swap file would be now on U:) 14) To reassign X: to U: use regedit: Locate: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE...

Idle. If I disable the swap file it seems to stop, but starts again as soon as I enable it. Any other suggestions appreciated. Thanks. "Phillips" wrote: > Also, since you have 1GB ram, disable the swap files and see if it solves > the noise....

disable the swap file. Reboot. Delete all instances of pagefile.sys from all drives should any exist, then reverse the original steps and reenable the swap file. Reboot once more to finish. See if this helps, -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka...

us high and dry. If you have 8GB RAM you can safely disable the swap file. Toms hardware has an article about disabling swap; read it if you like. Disabling swap will not disable virtual memory design; two things that are related but not the same thing....

swapping is an emergency solution for having too little RAM. If you do not want to disable the swap completely, put it on the slowest, crappiest HDD in your system. The only real usage for swap is hibernation; and since its used with sequential access for...

in message news:%234jcDRGJFHA.3812@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > No - unless you're on Raid0 and there's only one swap file anyway. > To improve performance, disable the swap file for 1GB RAM or more - or set > it on a RAM Drive if you have to have one. > Forget...

turn the swap file off? or should I? >> TIA >> Michael You really shouldn't disable the swap file (page file in XP) because it's likely to cause more errors than it's worth. Using various tweak application you can force the OS to load a number...