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ingeborgdot
02-24-2009, 01:58 PM
I have my page file on drive F. I had it set to a specific size. The other day I had to do a repair and now I go back and have two page files. One on the OS side drive C and also on drive F. It has been over a year and a half since I have done this and I don't do it often can anyone remind me what size the page file of my drive f should be and what size the one on drive c should be? I know I can't delete the page file on c because I have tried and it would not let me. Anyone? Thanks.
3Z3VH
02-25-2009, 04:23 PM
Microsoft's Best Practices say you should make the page file 2x the amount of RAM in the machine, but I have seen that above 4GB of RAM, you don't need to worry as much about it. I would say a 4GB page file is more than plenty.
ingeborgdot
02-25-2009, 05:06 PM
I have even read some articles that tell you to even try letting vista run it because they said it did a great job.
[XC] riptide
02-28-2009, 05:37 AM
I have even read some articles that tell you to even try letting vista run it because they said it did a great job.
If you have crash debug options enabled you need something like 16MB min pagefile on the C (OS) drive. This allows logging to take place when you get a Blue screen. I THINK i'm right in saying this. You could just set the C Pagefile to 50megabytes and forget about it.