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To: Larry Shelor who wrote (4508)	7/17/1999 2:51:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110634

I'm sending this message with no swap file. Had to close Outlook Express to do it. Nothing else is running and I have 64MB memory. With Outlook Express open ie wouldn't even go to a url. Closed OE and got to the url. Opened OE again and ie didn't have any Favorites and got an illegal operation and had to close ie and OE and open ie by itself. Now I'm typing this. >> norton would move the swap drive each time i defraq.<< I don't THINK Windows moves it every time in defrag but I could be wrong. Two hard drives is nice if you've got two OS's or if you need a lot of space. OTOH it's noisier, although I think there may be quieter drives out there than what I have. My next drive will probably be a WD 18GB 7200rpm ATA33/66. Supposed to be very similar to the IBM drives as WD licensed the IBM head technology for it. Storage Review says they look identical and their performance specs are very close. But the WD is cheaper. IBM's are known to be very quiet and the review says that this WD is too. My present drives are WD (3.2GB) and are rather loud (idling noise). I would also like to have my case fan and power supply fan turn off when the monitors and HDD's turn off in standby mode. Does anyone know if this is possible? Where's Richard? w

To: Larry Shelor who wrote (4508)	7/17/1999 3:13:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.