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Old 01-10-2007, 08:37 PM   #6 (permalink)
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It slows down my computer if Virtual memory is enabled.
Virtual memory is a portion of your hard drive used as RAM. Physical RAM is MANY MANY times faster than the hard drive. Besides that, your hard drive is working to do other things(load windows, your programs, etc etc) and it just can't keep up.
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