Re: Can I install a photo-editing app on it's own partition?
From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 12/17/04
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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:52:54 -0600
I would leave the virtual memory set as it is for now, but
you should read the article
at http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm for a complete
explanation.
You need to keep at least 15-25% free disk space so that
Windows is able to write temp files quickly and also to
allow defrag to run [ that requires 15% free]. You should
clear temp files and run disk cleanup and defrag regularly.
Rebooting the computer before doing disk cleanup will allow
temp files to be closed and then deleted.
Having a laptop is a great convenience and can be essential
"on the road" for data collection and downloading your
photos or using the scanner. But you should really consider
a desktop for "home" use. If mobility is needed, they do
make desktop replacement laptops, that are larger, have
faster CPUs and more memory and can do just about anything a
desktop can do, but at a higher price.
-- Merry Christmas Have a Safe and Happy New Year Live Long and Prosper Jim Macklin "Claudia Sheridan" <claudiasheridan_dont_spam_me@yahoo.ie> wrote in message news:e7NGtq%234EHA.4028@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl... | 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? | | -- | | ´~°^§§§ Posted by Claudia §§§^°~´ | "Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message | news:%23n49LS54EHA.1524@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... | > 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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