What will be of interest is how large your Restore get over the next week or
so....as I wrote in the beginning, my Restore Points following the Install of
Vista SP2 grew from Restore points that were a round 1 GB a week in total to
3 to 4 GB daily. That is the reason I started this thread.......
"Doug" wrote:
> "Manny Weisbord" <mannyweisbord@crimest.invalid> wrote in message
> news:j69355thiea4ekqe8lg4lhra1ktfpp8v9v@4ax.com...
> > "Doug" <doug@FAKEpleasereplytogroup.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I am concerned at the suggestion that if the Page File is to perform its
> >>intended role it must be in the Root Drive. I have always put it on a
> >>different drive imagining that with two drives working cooperatively it
> >>speeds everything up, and am reluctant to give up that notion on the basis
> >>of a report of advice given on a Microsoft helpline without further
> >>verification. I shall be interested to learn the current truth of the
> >>matter.
> >>
> >>Four weeks ago I was chided on this NG for mentioning that, with my RAM
> >>increased to 4 GB, I had given up using a swap file. The consensus was
> >>always use a swap file and leave Vista to choose its size, so I mended my
> >>ways and now have it, though NOT on my root drive. Since then some
> >>processes, such as Vista's Disk Cleanup, seem to take twice as long as
> >>they
> >>did with no swap file, and generally things seem a little more sluggish. I
> >>had imagined they would be even more sluggish if all the frantic disk
> >>activity were confined to a single HDD, but I could well be wrong about
> >>that, particularly if Vista is having to make compromises because the swap
> >>file is on the *wrong* drive.
> >>
> >>Doug
> >
> > These sites might be helpful (or might confuse you more):
> >
> > http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-v...s-paging-file/
> >
> > http://tweakhound.com/vista/tweakguide/page_6.htm
> >
> > http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/0...ing-file-size/
>
> Thanks Manny, most interesting and useful.
> Under the illusion that I am no longer confused 
I have settled for:
> Drive C: a static swap file of 4605 MB
> Drive D: a static swap file of 4605 MB
> 4605 MB was the figure recommended by Vista.
> Vista should then be able to use the 9210 MB of available virtual memory any
> way it pleases with minimum impact on anything else. Hopefully all will now
> run sweetly till I upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium.
>
>
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