Re: Excessive Paging

Ray

You need to reduce the size allocations as I suggested. You cannot rely on regular housekeeping with such a small hard drive.

You may find it helpful to know exactly how much of your pagefile is being used.

Use page file monitor to observe what is the peak usage. Start it to
run immediately after start-up and look at the log at the end of the
session.The log is Pagefilelog.txt. If you right click on the file in
Windows Explorer and select Send to, Desktop (Create Shortcut). The
same applies to XP_PageFileMon.exe.

A small utility to monitor pagefile usage:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm

What are your anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements in term of programmes being used? Also what firewall?

How many users log on to your computer? Is it only you?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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Ray wrote:
Thanks again Gerry. I routinely reduce IE's cache but forgot about the
recycle bin, and didn't know about the restore allocation. I'll have
to keep those in mind. I run NTFS so all the uninstall files appear
to be automatically compressed. (Un)fortunately what I gained here
went right into the pagefile but it's better than reducing my free
space. I think a defrag might be in order as well...

- Ray



Gerry Cornell wrote:
Ray

Your hard drive is very small. Your free disk space is minimal. The
suggestions, which follow may help.

It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System
Restore on your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce
it to 700 mb. Right click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and
select System Restore. Place the cursor on your C drive select
Settings but this time find the slider and drag it to the left until
it reads 700 mb and exit. When you get to the Settings screen click
on Apply and OK and exit.

If your hard drive is formatted as NTFS another potential gain arises
with your operating system on your C drive. In the Windows Directory
of your C partition you will have some Uninstall folders in your
Windows folder typically: $NtServicePackUninstall$ and
$NtUninstallKB282010$ etc.
These files may be compressed or not compressed. If compressed the
text of the folder name appears in blue characters. If not compressed
you can compress them. Right click on each folder and select
Properties, General, Advanced and check the box before Compress
contents to save Disk Space. On the General Tab you can see the
amount gained by deducting the size on disk from the size. Folder
compression is only an option on a NTFS formatted drive / partition.

Another default setting on a large drive which could be wasteful is
that for temporary internet files especially if you do not store
offline copies on disk. The default allocation is 3% of drive.
Depending on your attitude to offline copies you could reduce this to
1% or 2%. In Internet Explorer select Tools, Internet Options,
General, Temporary Internet Files, Settings to make the change. At
the same time look at the number of days history is held.

The default allocation for the Recycle Bin is 10 % of drive. On your
drive 5% should be sufficient. In Windows Explorer place the cursor
on your
Recycle Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and move the
slider from 10% to 5%.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Ray wrote:
I had thought that TaskMan->Performance->Physical Memory->Total was
the RAM? Anyway, MyComputer reports 384.

The hard drive is 10G with about 1.5 free.

This system was running fine a couple of months ago so I don't think
it requires a hardware upgrade unless
an automatic update pushed it over the edge. It does run McAfee
antivirus which self updates
regularly and automatically updates xp as well. I've tried disabling
McAfee which doesn't seem
to have an effect.


- Ray

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