Re: S I Z E O F W I N D O W S ? ? ?

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From: Donald McDaniel (orthocrossAT_at_cablespeed.DOTcom)
Date: 03/07/04 

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 09:15:04 -0800

Steve UK wrote:
> what is the size or a windows installation?
>
> i have windows and program files only on c: drive, all my
> music/video/docs are on other partitions.
>
> i set my c: capacity to 8gb to take program files and windows and it's
> nearly full!!
>
> i have noticed that a file on c: 'pagefile' is 1.5gb in size, is this
> the correct size for a pagefile???
>
> i have a 2ghz cpu with 1gb ram. also the 'hiberfil' file (whatever
> that is) is 1gb in size.
>
> is this correct and if so how much free space do i need on c: for
> windows to be stable. there are presently 407mb free on disk c:
>
> thanks.

1) When you have XP manage your page file, it automatically sets the size to
be 1.5 times the size of your installed memory. Keeping that in mind, a
pagefile.sys of 1.5gb is correct. Since you have so much system memory, you
can easily save a minimum of half that disk space by managing your pagefile
yourself (unless you regularly use HUGE graphics-intensive programs, in
which case you SHOULD let Windows manage your pagefile).

2) When you have Hibernation turned on in Power Options, XP saves a file
containing a current image of your installed memory, named "hiberfil.sys".
In your case, it is 1gb, since your installed memory is 1gb. Hibernation is
really only used by laptop compters, so turning off Hibernation will
automatically remove hiberfil.sys and save you 1 gb.

With that said, I advise everyone to have a system partition of at least 8
gb (whether you think you need it or not.) With the prices of large HDs
being so low nowadays, having small partitions seems senseless to me. Yes,
yes, I know all the standard arguments, but I happen to disagree with them.

Personally, I just make one large partition filling up all available space
on hd0, and keep my backups and media files on hd1. 

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Donald L McDaniel
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