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To: Ed Forrest who wrote (7870)	1/17/2000 1:33:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

hey ed, re "I looked mine up and found it to be 48 mg.Today its 44mg. Do you think thats too large?" that made me curious. i checked the size of the swap files on two puters i use. one is 84mb and the other is 98mb. i'm using the default setting of letting windows manage virtual memory. also every time i defrag via norton utilities i also optimize the swap file. and i put it at the front of the disk. for some reason it isn't always located there. norton moves it if instructed to. just fwiw... :) mark

To: Ed Forrest who wrote (7870)	1/17/2000 3:00:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

My swap file goes from 25meg to over 100meg. I don't worry about its size, because I let Windows take care of the details. Windows uses the swap file and you cannot delete it from a DOS window. Boot to DOS and the file is free from Windows' embrace and can be deleted without difficulty. Cheers, PW. P.S. I read of a study where it was nearly impossible to manage the swap file better than Windows does when you let it. I don't feel I can beat the odds, so I keep my hands off. P.P.S. You can delete the swap file by manually setting the virtual memory settings to not use it, reboot, then delete, then set settings back, and reboot again. Sounds like this is more work than a boot to DOS and delete.