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A More Virtuous Setting for Virtual Memory?

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by dkline, 2006/10/07.

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  1. 2006/11/04
    charlesvar

    charlesvar Inactive Alumni

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    Hi Dave,

    About need, if you have one on C and running only one OS, no you don't need it.

    The OS would re create it if needed. Lots of cleaning/privacy tools delete pagefile.sys - the OS just re creates it.

    Regards - Charles
     
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  2. 2006/11/04
    Christer

    Christer Geek Member Staff

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    I anticipated that Windows would moan about it, even if it has abandoned the pagefile on that partition. If you try to delete a pagefile that is actually in use, you wouldn't be able to.

    Christer
     
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  4. 2006/11/04
    dkline

    dkline Inactive Thread Starter

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    Yeah, Windows can get kinda surly at times, can't it.
     
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  5. 2006/11/11
    MerleOne

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    Yes you can. If it is still used by the system, windows will not let you delete it.

    .merle1.

     
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  6. 2006/11/11
    Bill Castner

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    It can be deleted.
    Set the pagefile minimum and maximum to zero.

    Start, Run, cmd

    attrib -s -h drive_letter:\pagefile.sys
    del drive_letter:\pagefile.sys

    Reset your Virtual memory settings.
     
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  7. 2006/11/11
    Mr. Fix It

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    It's not a box of candy!

    [SIZE= "2"]... why all the partitions? It's not a box of candy. My vote is for no paging file and a system managed virtual memory. But really, why all the partitions? Buy some additional hard drives; they are dirt cheap - and you will better accomplish what, I think, you are trying to accomplish. Are you with me?[/SIZE] :D
     
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  8. 2006/11/12
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    The Paging File and Virtual Memory are one and the same - no pagefile equates to no virtual memory.
     
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  9. 2006/11/13
    dkline

    dkline Inactive Thread Starter

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    Thanks everyone.

    I've got a paging file of 1536-3072 on the C partition, with no paging files on the D, E and F partitions. Seems to be working fine.
     
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