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Adjust XP's virtual memory settings,
your "swapfile" or "paging file"
XP places your "swapfile" or "paging file" (a portion
of your hard drive that's used as a kind of pseudo-RAM) on your
C: drive, and sets it up so it can grow and shrink as needed.
However, you may be able to do better. For example, if you have
more than one physical disk in your system, you may get better
performance by either placing the swapfile on the lesser-used
disk (assuming it's as fast as or faster than the primary disk)
or by splitting the swapfile across two disks. You also may see
modest improvements in responsiveness if you set the swapfile to
a fixed size, so Windows won't waste time growing and shrinking
the file on demand.
i.e. We have 512MB ram on one computer, and set the swap
file to a fixed size of 700MB on an empty partition. |