[Richard M]

Originally Posted by rdhw

This sounds to me like a terrible idea, though I must be the first to admit that my understanding of Windows virtual memory is not complete. But to the extent that I do understand it (as it works in NT, 2k, and XP), then one should enable virtual memory and a swap file on every partition which holds programs or data files. The reason for this is that when a file (or program) is opened, it can be "mapped" into virtual memory in situ, without any copying. If virtual memeory is not active on the partition in which the file (or program) resides, then that file (or program) must be first copied into the swap file of another partition. I'll check for more info on this.

Every partition?
I can understand why but I was always told to just use one as in Linux.