Re: Several questions

Galen,

Thanks again, but not convinced. Accessing the information *at the same
time* as the request is made is too much like having two people yelling
simultaneously into opposite ears. There must be a time lag for any
processing to take place. Whatever the merits of having the swap on a
separate disc I cannot see much of an improvement over the head moving
a hundredth of a millimetre to access an adjacent partition for its
information. But I could be wrong - I often am <g>

Haven't got around to creating a truly separate partition yet,
contenting myself with having a single pagefile of about 1.5GB (I have
1 GB of RAM) on an adjacent drive not likely to be otherwise accessed
by the OS during its fulminations. But a brief and unsuccessful foray
into LINUX demonstrated some of the virtues of a separate partition
although, of course, that OS is nowhere near as bloated as Windows
anyway. Had I been prepared to splash out the cash for new compatible
modem and printer to fully explore it I suspect I would not be here
asking questions.

Tony.

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