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To: Larry Shelor who wrote (4508)7/17/1999 3:13:00 PM
From: PMS Witch  Read Replies (1) of 110634
 
Swap file stuff...

My understanding is that setting a minimum swap file size prevents Windows from automatically reducing the size to unreasonably small sizes. A lightly loaded system could have an inappropriately small swap file allocation resulting in clusters formally allocated to the swap file being overwritten by other data. If this other data takes up residence on the disk where the swap file used to live, then the next time Windows expands the swap file, it must claim other non-continuous disk space, and the swap file becomes fragmented. Some optimizing software sets larger minimum swap file sizes for this reason.

A suggestion: Assign your defragmenting operation to a .JOB file in your TASKS folder. You can have your disk cleaned up every night while you're not using your system. You can do this easily by clicking Scheduled tasks in Explorer and selecting Add Scheduled Task.

Hope this helps, PW.

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