I always created a separate partition for my swap file that was roughly about 5GB in size. My questions are this: 1. Does Vista also utilize a swap file or is that handled differently under Vista? 2. Can, and should, the swap file under Vista be placed...

Pagefile Size Windows Vista 64-bit with 8GB RAM. Surprisingly, I just did a search on this topic and nothing came back I'm curious about Pagefile Size for a Vista x64 machine with 8GB RAM. Right now I have it set at the following: Hard Drive 1 (Western...

a tester of Beta 1, Beta 2, RC1 & 2, There are some key things you must know. (1) Vista is a next generation platform (May cater for current hardware, but it's for tomorrow's hardware). (2) Games primarily use DX9 Source files (Vista uses Pure DX10), any...

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....

or corrupted cabinet file for VISTA". . extracting file failed It is most likely caused by low memory (low disk space for swapping file) or corrupted cabinet file for VISTA". What were you doing when the error occurred? ...

many a coaster. Sound problems a plenty I swear it's not faster. A Clean install of XP seemed a lot snapper than a clean install of Vista and I went from E64002GB 500GB7200.10 to E8400/8GB(no swap file) 750GB 7200.11 But if you are just going to do photoshop,...

does Vista take? [*]How does Vista handle swap files? I currently have a partition for an XP swap file and I don't know if I should carry over the same practice for Vista. I'll be using 4 gigs of RAM, for what it's worth. [*]Does Vista deal with partitions...

hibernation file and then re-enabled it again, Vista built one hibernation file for "true" hibernation and one for hybrid sleep. But I could be completely wrong, off course, this is just speculation. BTW, I am one of those people who have Vista x64 with...

and Vista. I want to get rid of XP Pro, and have Vista and Ubuntu in a dual boot configuration, with my data partition as well to be accessed by both (will mount in ubuntu). Partitions should look like Vista (C) 40GB Ubuntu (U) 40 GB Swap File 2GB Data...