Not sure about others here, but for many years I have been moving my paging file to a dedicated partition I created specifically for it. And then having the system manage it itself regardless of the amount of physical memory I have. I then disable all paging on every other partition and drive including the OS partition/drive.Originally Posted by seban
Little OT,
Quick question about page files in Vista 64. I got 4gb of RAM so I assumed I can cancel all page files, but some websites recommend leaving them no matter what and others opposite(hehe as always).
How are you doing it ppl - I am new to vista...
Thanks
This has worked well for me for many years. Its usually beneficial to make sure you keep the paging area on the fastest area of the drive, or near it. I usually create 3 partitions within 2 volumes. One volume with 2 partitions for the OS/simple small apps, and the second partition on the same volume for the Pagefile/Internet Cache, and the 2nd volume for frequently accessed programs or large programs like games, stuff I want to remain quick. This way I can be sure the background process of paging and frequent file caching wont interfere with constantly moving my frequently used apps/games data around all the time. Helps to reduce how often you need to defrag as well. I think, but I may have this wrong... lol
Anyone else have a better way to deal with the paging system? Other than the obvious more memory idea...
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