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Originally Posted by John Smiths
Just read the link (and the link from the link - about optimizing XP) and it says not to put mulitple swap files on different partitions of the same physical drive. But do you think it would be best to have a diff. partition for the swap still? Then i spose u could defrag that individual drive and therefore just the swap without defragging eveything....also the default swap size is 1.5 x physical RAM and the max is 3X - i have 1GB ram and don't really want a 3GB partition jsut for a swap which would probably not get used fully most of the time - so do you think it would be worth reducing standard and max sizes??
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With 1GB RAM you won't actually be using the swap file that much. Set your page file to 1.5GB min and 1.5GB max.
Don't bother putting it on a different partition.
When you defrag, defrag all your drives at the same time.