Swap File in windows 98

Does anyone know where the Windows 98 swap file is located?

 

win386.swp managed by win98 is in c:\windows folder.

Same name but user set and managed may be located in c:\root.

Same name but moved, by user, to it's own partition is only known by user or found via a folder/file search.

Did you try?:
*Hit F3 and do a search for it.

 

¿¿¿Edit the win386.swp or windows swap file???

OK, now I know where the windows swap file (win386.swp) is I just need to know how to get it so its not in use and I can edit it or copy it and be able to use it how ever I want??

 

SUPER NERD

Don't mean to be a smart a?? here but that relates to the old saying that

"If he had a brain he would take it out and play with it! "

The swap file can be moved, resized and even deleted (in dos) but nothing else can and should be done with it. It is for the OS exclusively. Don't play with it!

Mike

 

I dont necessarily need to edit it but I need to make a copy of it so i can look at the data that is located within it.

 

Boot to DOS, not command prompt in windows.

F8 while booting!

Find the swap file win386.swp (typically in root of c: or in c:\windows) copy it to win386.xxx.

Boot back to windows. Edit away!

mike

PS remember the data in the page file is as a piece of RAM, "memory" that is stored on the disk as needed. It can change drasticly with only a minor setting anywhere in windows or new HW or new sw. Even more or less installed RAM will change it from boot to boot!

 

what would i have to type in to copy that file....exactly what i would have to type into the prompt

 

Andy

find the file as in other messages

type

copy win386.swp win386.xxx

hit enter at end of above line, there is a space after swp

you will now have 2 win386 files

win386.swp

and win386.xxx

play with the win386.xxx

Ahh hummmm!

Mike

 

so this is what I should type then....

C:\> C:\windows\win386.swp copy win386.swp win386.xxx ??

is that ryte?

 

Nope.
At the c:\ prompt, type: cd c:\windows
At the c:\windows prompt, type: copy win386.swp win386.txt
Now you'll be able to open it in any text editor.

 

andrewkeil, this strikes me as curious. If you did not know how to copy a file in dos, what is your purpose of looking at the windows swap file? Just plain curiosity?

 

Hee hee!

Mark You crack me up!

Mike

 

Well, one reason for copying a binary file to a txt, is that it exercises the mind trying to read it.

 

Thats for dad gum sure!

Lol!

Mike

 

Yes, it would.