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This is a tip that can help increase
performance. However before you start YOU MUST HAVE TWO HARD DRIVES on your
system. If you don't have two hard drives then you CANNOT move the paging file.
1/ Click the Start button
2/ From the Start menu select
Control Panel
3/ In Control panel click the System
Icon
4/ When the System Properties Window opens
click the Advanced Tab
5/ At the top of the Advanced Tab you will
see a section marked Performance
6/ Click the Settings button in the
performance Section
7/ When the Performance window opens click
the Advanced tab
8/ At the bottom of the window you will
see a section marked Virtual Memory. Click the Change button
9/ The Virtual Memory window now opens
10/ You will now see details of your
paging file and the drive it is stored on
11/ Now Select The Drive you want
to change the paging file to (an alternative drive to c:)
12/ Under the Total Paging File Size
for All Drives you will see a figure in MB (megabytes). This is the
Recommended paging file size
13/ Click on the Custom Size Option
and in the Initial Size dialog box enter the Recommended value
14/ In the Maximum Size option box
type in Twice the recommended value figure
15/ Now click the Set button
16/ Now select your C: drive from
the details box and then put a check in the No Paging File option
17/ Once again click Set
18/ Finally click OK on each window
to Exit the System Properties
19/ You will need to reboot your pc for
the changes in the paging file to take effect
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