Re: Creating Partition for virtual memory

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From: Anando [MS-MVP] (anando_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:46:25 -0300

Ameer,

A good resource on Pagefiles:

Virtual memory in Windows XP
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm 

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"Ameer K." <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:5edf01c481ae$46c9f630$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hey guys I was reading this "tweaks" page and I read that
> creating a hdd partition specifically reserved for
> virtual memory can improve performance. They said that
> you wont have to worry about defragging your hdd as much,
> because hdd swapping causes alot of fragmentation.
> Anwyays does anyone know if this is a good idea, and how
> many gigabytes should virtual memory be?
> thanks

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