Re: Move "pagefile.sys" to a different drive

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"Twayne" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a partitioned drive that was allocated by an
idiot, so it's a major pain to keep the smaller (c:)
partition small enough to be in a condition where
it's possible to run a defrag. It would help quite a
bit if I could move my pagefile to the second of
the two partitions. Is that a simple change in the
Registry and a re-boot?


Thanks,
Bill

You use a selection in options, amongst other ways, to move or size the
pagefile. However, moving the pagefile to another drive letter on the
same physical drive is most likely going to cause a noticeable and
*annoying* slowdown in your machine.
If that's acceptable, use:
Start; Settings; control panel; and click on System icon.
Then choose the Advance tab, and click the top Settings button in the
Performance rectangle.
In Settings Performance Options, in the Virtual Memory rectangle, click on
Change.
Now select the drive you want, and click Let Windows Manage ... , click
SET.
Select drive C, and set it for NO swap file. Click SET
N O T E : If you don't click SET, nothing happens. YOu must click SET for
EACH drive you change!!

OK your way out and restart.
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You could also simply kill the pagefile and restart before doing a defrag.
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But neither of those are very good solutions and at best are simply
bandaids to cover up a problem.
You really need a larger hard drive. Hard drives are very cheap these
days and getting a second one is your absolute best solution long term.
Right now you have zero room for any kind of expansion on your boot drive.
NOTHING here or in any of the posts so far is going to give you anything
but a temporary respite from your problems.
UNLESS you have gobs of room on the second partition. But you didn't
give any details so I'm not going to guess at what other solutions may be
viable. When you provide usable information then more functional answers
can be provided.

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The drive is 120GB. And yes, there's "gobs of room" on the 2nd partition.
I'm in California and the "offending" computer is in Connecticut, so I'm not
in a position to resolve the problem more appropriately. I've managed to
help "Connecticut" to move every non-system folder to their larger partition
so that ONLY system files "come and go" on their "C" drive. We finally got
the
"C" partition defragged to where there's 1.88GB free and we'll see how
things
go.

One thing I stumbled upon was an enormous "Temp" folder in the users "Local
Settings", like 2GB. What's with that? Those files didn't seem to be
associated with
temporary Internet files that "Connecticut" purges on a regular basis. It
would seem,
by definition, that those files could be deleted when there were no
applications
running, save system oriented processes.

Thanks,
Bill


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