Vista - Page File Management

‘From Windows Vista Inside and Out’:
Apparently it’s a nice performance tweak to move your Page file form the
hard drive with Windows on it to your other internal drive. Is this just a
cut from c: to paste to d: job? Assuming a normal letter configuration here.

It goes on to say “Using multiple page files split over two or more physical
disks is an even better idea.�

That made me think maybe its better to copy to the second drive. But maybe
they were thinking of two spare drives without Windows on them here?

Also I can’t seem to see it in C:, what is it actually called?

Look here: How to move the paging file in Windows XP it explain how to move Paging Files for XP, for Vista must be similar. You must do it on a different HDD, keep a exclisive partition for it, leaving enough space on this partition (from 1.5 to 3 times the total of fisical RAM you have installed. For example for my XP I make first partition of my second HDD 12GB because I have 4 GB RAM. I read that Paging File partition is better if it's on first partition of second Drive and its own.
I did it with my XP and the gain in Fastness was really notable.

> ‘From Windows Vista Inside and Out’:There's an option to configure Virtual Memory settings in:

Advanced System Settings\Advanced\Performance\Advanced\Virtual Memory
Settings

There you can move the page file to a different drive. You will still need
to keep a page file on C: but it can be much smaller. Mine is 200 megs
which Vista recommended as a minimum for crash dumps. By the way, after
changing settings don't forget to click the SET button - if you don't all
the changes are lost.

Hi Bluehills,

This tutoral will show you how to change and move the "Virtual Memory Paging File". It is best to have it in a separate hard drive and not a separate partition to get the most out of it.

Virtual Memory Paging File - Change

Shawn