Re: Can I install a photo-editing app on it's own partition?

From: Claudia Sheridan (claudiasheridan_dont_spam_me_at_yahoo.ie)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 03:43:32 -0000

Thanks Ken and Jim. I was hoping for some miracle cure short of buying a
new laptop :-( You mention the paging file - this is something I altered
about a month ago following various guidelines to have it approximately
double my RAM. I went into Windows virtual memory settings and set both the
minimum and maximum to 1000MB. I wasn't even thinking about photo-editing -
I was just doing what I thought was best for Windows - but do you think I
should create different settings than normal for this page file given that I
primarily use it for photos? I have a 20 GB hard drive (although it shows
as 18.6GB in "My Computer"), with 11.1 GB currently free, so as you can see
I am very tidy with my disk space! I have 512MB RAM. So should I increase
the parameters of the virtual memory? 

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"Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message 
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> In news:eXAFUOy4EHA.4008@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl,
> Claudia Sheridan <claudiasheridan_dont_spam_me@yahoo.ie> typed:
>
>>I have heard some talk about creating a separate drive for storing
>> graphics and music files and I was wondering if anyone knew why this
>> is?  I am working with a lot of image files at the moment via both a
>> digital camera and a scanner and when I work with them it slows down
>> my laptop big time when have Internet Explorer and other programs
>> running at the same time.  (I use Ulead Photoimpact to edit them).
>> Could this be improved if the image files, or even the entire
>> photo-editing apps and files were all  installed on another partition
>> (ie. that I would have one drive letter dedicated solely to image
>> work)?
>
>
> No. Whatever benefit there might be (probably little, in my view) to 
> creating a separate partition for these have to do with organization and 
> backup techniques.
>
> Partitioning like this will not improve performance. Working with image 
> files is slower than with text files because image files are usually 
> bigger (thus taking up more memory, and thereby creating the need for 
> extra paging) and because it's a CPU-intensive process.
>
> -- 
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>

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