doug Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 Running WinXP Pro on an AMD Athlon XP2200+ at 1.81 G hz with 1 GB RAM. At present my virtual memory is set as 1536 M on the C drive plus 3000 M on the D drive. I've now increased my C drive from 40 Gb to 80 GB. Looking for recommendations to get best performance. Can't fork out for any extra RAM 'till my birthday. Such a long time to wait! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 It was always claimed, and my own experience seemed to bear it out, that by preventing Windows managing the swap file and setting it to about 6x RAM was a good way to speed things up. But then that is 98SE. I am speaking of the dark ages really. Thought I still do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 What are your C: and D: drives - are they partitions on the same HD, or are they separate disks? I imagine that Windows and most applications are on the C: drive, and D: contains mostly data?If so, and especially if they are separate disks, I would move the page file entirely to the D: drive (if there is enough free space). Otherwise it doesn't really matter. Also, 80GB sounds a bit much to me, although a very large page file will not increase or decrease performance in any way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted January 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 Two separate drives, Pat. The D drive is 320 Gb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 If you don't have too much I/O activity on the D: drive, then I would definitely move the page file to the D: drive (and have none on the C: drive). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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