[Hpro]

I actually never ever suggested to move the PAGEFILE to another drive - except if the drive would have at least the same Charateristics as the one where the OS runs on - if you run to OS from UDMA2 drive but you place the PAGEFILE on a Mode4 drive I can assure everyone that you will see a Speed drop like a stone drops from a roof - the same is for all those guys who are creating a SWAP partition on the same drive - this will only cause the Read / Write head to move more and in the end slow down the overall process - Keep it on the same drive and defrag it regular - If you do a lot install / uninstall if tyou plave it on a SECOND HARD DRIVE then make sure that the SPEED of the hard drive matches the SPEED of the one where the OS is on..Use diskeeper or any other defrag program to defrag the MASTER FILE TABLE and also BOOT DEFRAGMENT - this will improve the speed of win2k - that you can SEE and FEEL it..

keep the PAGE FILE within certain levels - depending what you use your computer for..There is no SOLE SOLUTION but there is the way to try to find the best individual Solution for each user.. that's in fact what I meant ..

Just build a PIII 800 EB within 20 minutes today and another one hour to completely install 3 partitions for Boot, Win98 - Win2000 on a ASUS CUSL2-C without any problems ...and now it's ready to be delivered to the customer with two OS fully installed and all what comes with it..

Sometime I wonder why there are so many people having so may problems to get their computers build on the first try..Anyway if I can help to get anything boing better - be all sure I certainly will..

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I just build as I stated above a system for a customer this afternoon - and this just for notice the PAGEFILE was set by Windows to a DEFAULT of 192 Mb min and 384 Mb Max this would be a level of 1.5 for minimum and 2 for maximum and the PIII - was crawling instead of flying - Oh this on 128 Mb Ram - I set the Pagefile to 64 - 128 and the PIII is really speeding away now..

If you look very good at the size of the Pagefile which is Special Hidden in the Root folder - then you will see that it always will create the minimum amount set in Windows Control Panel device managers performance Tab.!How much actually will be use is another question but it has to be created on each restart.!Otherwise there it wouldn't be necessary to have a Hibernate Option build in to windows..

This for Omletteboy - I wouldn't remove the RAM - but instead find the tweak which will fit your computer best with the 192 Mb - this may require a few restarts but it is worth it - try with 64 min and 192 Max for the amount of 192 Mb if this is not eoungh then top the MIN by 5 mb steps.. Look at the task manager how much you need just to open windows without anythings else opened..

And then a second test with a normal run and a third test with a full load -until the computer is slowing down or Win2k comes and increases the PAGEFILE.. then you will know the limits..