Need XP to utilize more RAM and less Page File

In laymans terms, yes, you can call the pagefile for virtual memory. It depends on what level we are talking, I guess. I know the comptia exam (I have once taken it) and know it is not targeted very high, so it stops at that definition.

Talking about pagefile and then seeing a sentence like this:

"Also some Windows procedures expect to find some virtual memory to use."

doesn't make sence. Because now the two definitions are mixed.
 
I am not disagreeing with you tyttebøvs to be a jerk. No hard feelings intended, but Microsoft also calls a pagefile virtual memory. Look in your settings where you change the size of a pagefile in Windows Vista. It says the following:

"Virtual memory
A paging file is an area on the hard disk that Windows uses as if it were RAM."
 
I am just saying that the kind of virtual memory that applications reference has nothing to do with the pagefile.

So when someone says: "applications reference virtual memory" - that is not the pagefile.
 
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