Re: Installing Extra RAM

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Not really David.

Did you or did you not say this ""Except for the swapfile, it will be
set for the pre upgrade amount of RAM as I said in my post."?.

Perhaps it was another David B?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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David B. wrote:
You have misunderstood. If you have a PC with Windows XP, and 256 MB
of RAM, if you upgrade the RAM to 512MB or 1GB, Windows WILL NOT
automatically adjust the swap file to match the upgrade, the page
file setting will remain unchanged after the upgrade, you need to
either manually adjust the size for the additional RAM or take the
easier route and set it to system managed, I will stress this because
there seems to be some confusion.
WINDOWS XP'S PAGE FILE IS NOT SET TO SYSTEM MANAGED BY DEFAULT, IT
WILL NOT AUTOMATICALLY CHANGE THE SWAP FILE SIZE WHEN ADDING OR
REMOVING RAM FROM THE SYSTEM.

You people are on here arguing with me about exactly what I said, it
SHOULD be set to system managed, but it is not be default, Windows
Vista is.

"Gerry" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Daave

"Except for the swapfile, it will be set for the pre upgrade amount
of RAM as I said in my post.".

This is the statement which provoked Leonard's first post. In my
view the statement by David B is wrong but you can argue that his
meaning is not clear.

The question by the OP was about installing extra RAM and "am I
required to change any settings". The answer is no because the new
RAM is automatically registered by the system. David B introduced
the subject of the pagefile but making changes to pagefile settings
is not required as he implied. You can if you want make changes, it
is an option the user may wish to do. David B's statement is wrong
regarding the pagefile as it makes an assumption about the users
settings which the OP has not revealed.

Leonard is an adherent to the school of thought that letting Windows
manage the page file is best. He seems to have made one mistake when
he said that this the default. When it was pointed out that he was
wrong he backed off asking for a truce. Look again "Leonard kept on
insisting that by default" is an exageration. The whole exchange was
pointless because neither knew what pagefile settings the OP had.

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Gerry
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Daave wrote:
"Gerry" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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David

That's not the debate you were having with Leonard as it looked to
me.

It looked that way to me.

Leonard kept on insisting that by default, XP lets the system manage
virtual memory, which is not true. If XP did indeed do this, then
David B.'s customers would never have gotten the low virtual memory
errors after they increased their amount of RAM.


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