whats pagefile?
- Thread starter JamesBart
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Yes you only should disable it if you have 1gb of memory because if you have less it will slow down your system.
But i see you have 1Gb of ram in your Dell Dimension so i say go ahead and disable it.
Heres how to do it...
1. Start the Control Panel System applet (go to Start, Settings, Control Panel, and click System).
2. Select the Advanced tab.
3. Under the Performance section, click Settings.
4. Select the Advanced tab.
5. Under the Virtual Memory section, click Change.
6. Select No Paging File and click Set.
7. Click OK.
But i see you have 1Gb of ram in your Dell Dimension so i say go ahead and disable it.
Heres how to do it...
1. Start the Control Panel System applet (go to Start, Settings, Control Panel, and click System).
2. Select the Advanced tab.
3. Under the Performance section, click Settings.
4. Select the Advanced tab.
5. Under the Virtual Memory section, click Change.
6. Select No Paging File and click Set.
7. Click OK.
Well which one do you want to disable it on 6071842?
I see you have these in your siggy...
The Dimension would be ok but the emachines wont run that well with it disabled.
TFT
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I don't think a blanket statement of saying yes or no can be made.
If you use Photoshop for instance it must have a page file to work, also many programs on startup automatically assign memory "just in case". You can see from this that a huge chunk of memory may be allocated and never used. I'd much rather it took virtual memory for allocation than my RAM.
If you use Photoshop for instance it must have a page file to work, also many programs on startup automatically assign memory "just in case". You can see from this that a huge chunk of memory may be allocated and never used. I'd much rather it took virtual memory for allocation than my RAM.
So, if you have a lot of RAM, you don't need a pagefile, right? Not necessarily. When certain applications start, they allocate a huge amount of memory (hundreds of megabytes typically set aside in virtual memory) even though they might not use it. If no pagefile (i.e., virtual memory) is present, a memory-hogging application can quickly use a large chunk of RAM. Even worse, just a few such programs can bring a machine loaded with memory to a halt. Some applications (e.g., Adobe Photoshop) will display warnings on startup if no pagefile is present. My advice, therefore, is not to disable the pagefile, because Windows will move pages from RAM to the pagefile only when necessary. Furthermore, you gain no performance improvement by turning off the pagefile. To save disk space, you can set a small initial pagefile size (as little as 100MB) and set a high maximum size (e.g., 1GB) so that Windows can increase the size if needed. With 1GB of RAM under normal application loads, the pagefile would probably never need to grow.