>>>>my system has two hard drives. is it possible to improve performance by
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>>>>utilizing second (D) drive.
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>>> Two things you can do...
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>>> Move your page file there.
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>>Yes, just be aware that you still need a small pagefile on C: - Vista will
>>complain if you set it for less than 200 megs. >
> No it won't.
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> I have a 2gig page file on another drive and none on my C... no
> complaints. No errors in any event logs.
> Let me be more specific. Multiple sources say that a small pagefile is
necessary on C: for crash memory dumps. If you don't have the pagefile then
you don't get that information in the event of a crash. When I was
resetting the pagefile on C: Vista gave a warning basically saying this in
non-technical terms. I'm not aware of any other issues. Regarding
performance, whatever benefit is gained by moving most of the total paging
space to a different hard drive will not be lost by having a small file on
C: