Stupid pagefile..grr!

I was wondering if anyone could help me out with a little problem I am having.

I have 1 drive with a number of partitions, the second of which is a swap one for the pagefile. I went to the control panel > system > performance > advanced and set the pagefile to that drive only, rebooted, etc.

However, I still have a 1.9GB pagefile.sys in my C:\ directory when there is already one in D:\

It is like the one in C, even though it is not supposed to be there, won't go away. I am wary of just deleting it (not even sure if you can), and was wondering if ayone knoew how to rectify the situation.

Thanks

 

As long as you set each drive to manual and choose no paging file for all drives you don't want one on, it should be gone.

 

I know, and that is why it is so confusing.

It is not like I haven't done this before....maybe I am missing something obvious...guess I'll go back and re-re-re-check it at home.

 

What happens if you just delete the paging file? If it's still mapped to C: then it'll automatically re-create the file, if not, then there's no worries. Manually deleting it should not harm your system.

-Vb-

 

Being you have 1GB of ram, I would just disable it completly. I did it on my thinkpad (1.5gb) and my desktop (512MB) with no adverse affects.

 

For general system use, you probably won't notice anything, but once things start to utilize the memory (multiple apps running or gaming), memory will run out. Also, if the apps used don't release the memory (memory leak), this will also reduce usable memory everytime you run the app.

-Vb-