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To: Larry Shelor who wrote (4506)	7/17/1999 2:13:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

I'm an inveterate defrag watcher as are some others on the thread so they can confirm or refute what I'm saying. I think the swap file stays in one spot as long as it doesn't become stranded from the rest of the content when you delete a large amount from your disk. You can see the swap file when you defragment using the "show details" mode: It's the portion with the boxes coded "will not be moved". It's a big contiguous block. If you delete a big portion of your files and the swap file becomes separated, then Windows will move it when you defrag -- otherwise it will stay where it is. Nothing to worry about I don't think. Setting your own sizes for virtual memory simply removes this task from Windows so that it has a little less to do. Supposed to make your computer work faster. Dunno. Setting max and min to be the same further reduces the work performed by Windows as it won't constantly be adjusting the size of the swap file. Non-pro takes. Also, if you have a second HDD, I'm told that it helps to put the swap file over there so that there is less head travel on the OS disk for retrieving from swap. I say go ahead and do it. As long as you don't set the size to zero you shouldn't have any problem. Even if you set it to zero it's no biggy. How do I know? I tried it! Things don't want to run but you still have enough resources to change the setting. It might be different for someone who has a lot of things running automatically at startup, but even then I think you could boot in Safe Mode and change it like that. As a matter of fact, go ahead and set it to zero (all liability for loss disclaimed). It's cool to see how Windows just STOPS <g>. w