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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (14348)	12/30/2000 12:35:19 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

How would I adjust my maximum swapfile size? From Win 98 help: To reserve disk space for extra memory to open the System Properties dialog box at the Performance tab. Click Virtual Memory. Make sure Let Windows manage my virtual memory settings is selected. Notes You can also open the System Properties dialog box by clicking Start, pointing to Settings, clicking Control Panel, and then double-clicking System. Whenever possible, let Windows manage your virtual memory. Windows chooses the default setting based on the amount of free hard-disk space. The swap file then shrinks and grows dynamically based on actual memory usage. If you need to specify a different disk or set limits on the minimum or maximum reserved space, click Let me specify my own virtual memory settings, and then enter the new disk in Hard disk or enter values (in kilobytes) in Minimum or Maximum. The part that confuses me is: set the minimum swap file size to the maximum size Windows would select during my typical work session PMS Witch, Windows selects all empty hardrive space as the max. size, doesn't it?

To: Rick Faurot who wrote (14348)	12/30/2000 11:53:26 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

...How would I adjust my maximum swapfile size?... Here's how I did it. First, get System Monitor going. Click Edit and select Add Item... You want to monitor your swap file size. It's found as Swap File Size under Memory Manager. Once you're monitoring the Swap File Size, click Edit and commence logging by selecting Start Logging. Now, get as busy with your computer as you're ever likely to get. Open all the usual windows, and work with all the usual data. Spend the day holding your nose to the grindstone. Stop logging. Check the System Monitor Logs for your swap file's maximum size. You can assume that it won't ever get much bigger. Record this number and convert it to "K" by dividing by 1,024. Run SYSEDIT, and edit SYSTEM.INI window. Scroll to [386Enh] section and find, or insert ... PagingDrive=C: MinPagingFileSize=????? (I removed the MaxPagingFile entry) Changing the ????? to the number of "K"s you determined from System Monitor. Click to close, saving your changes. For the new settings to take effect, you'll need to re-boot. Cheers, PW. P.S. Sorry, I'm confused. I posted how to set your minimum swapfile size, a more difficult question I get asked more frequently. You asked for instructions on setting maximum size. To do this, ignore the Monitor part of my post, Run SysEdit, and just modify, or insert the MaxPagingFileSize=????? entry.