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    wat is yall paging set to??

    Discussion in 'HP' started by HP Fan, Nov 19, 2006.

  1. HP Fan

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    paging file***
     
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    I set it to the non windows partition

    twice the ram.

    range of 0, so mine is 2048 mb to 2048 mb.

    Get the paging file off the windows drive whatever you do. Get to drive D.
     
    stamar, Nov 19, 2006
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  4. HP Fan

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    too late dude, i merged my D drive already
     
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    There is no getting your page file off the windows drive -- it's a notebook. There is only one hard drive. You can change it to another partition, but that really won't effect performance. The idea of moving it to another drive is to move it to another physical disk drive so that another drive can do the page file work while your main drive deals with Windows and programs. Without a second pysical drive, there's no real point in moving it.
     
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    I turn mine off.

    I multitask heavily and have only ran out of RAM once (when I was running multiple Visual Studios and one of them went crazy).

    I find that I am much more likely to run into Windows XP's artificial limit on the total amount of open handles in the system -- which causes the problem of new programs not opening properly, windows halfway loading/drawing, menus not opening/not opening completely, etc. and a bunch of other strange Windows problems when running lots of things.
     
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    what happen with you run out of ram and u have no paging file!?!?!
     
    HP Fan, Nov 19, 2006
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    Then you get an error message and you'll have to reboot. That's happened to my girlfriend and her old 512 MB notebook before.
     
    Greg, Nov 19, 2006
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