Well that seem to clear it up once and for all !

Its always nice to understand why not to do something (use a partition), 
because that then empowers you to ignore the advice where applicable.

I think this is certainly an option in my case and I will implement it 
right away. anyhow the most regular stress this system is likely to get is 
a bit of powerpoint presentations, some occasional gaming and graphics but 
not much of either. and it has 500 meg of ram anyhow.
  so I will set a minimim on C drive and a large one on the data partition

Thanks again
(now I just have to get this damn network printer working lol)

At 10:59 AM 7/07/2004, you wrote:
>In a message dated 7/6/04 4:57:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
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>>In a previouis message it was suggested to not move the swapfile to another
>>partition. I only have one physical drive with 3 partitions. Id quite like
>>to move the swapfile to the data partition but now im not sure if its ok to
>>do  that.
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><http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=move+XP+pagefile+to+another+partition>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=move+XP+pagefile+to+another+partition
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>Where is the page file?
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>The page file in XP is a hidden file called pagefile.sys. It is 
>regenerated at each boot — there is no need to include it in a backup. To 
>see itt you need to have Folder Options | View set to ‘Show Hidden and 
>System files’, and not to ‘Hide Protected mode System files’.In 
>earlier NT systems it was usual to have such a file on each hard drive 
>partition, if there were more than one partition, with the idea of having 
>the file as near as possible to the ‘action’ on the disk. In XP the 
>optimisation implied by this has been found not to justify the overhead, 
>and normally there is only a single page file in the first instance.
>Where do I set the placing and size of the page file?
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>At Control Panel | System | Advanced, click Settings in the 
>“Performance� Section. On the Advanced page of the result, the current 
>total physical size of all page files that may be in existence is shown. 
>Click Change to make settings for the Virtual memory operation. Here you 
>can select any drive partition and set either ‘Custom’; ‘System 
>Managed’ or ‘No page file’; then always click Set before going on to 
>the next partition.
>Should the file be left on Drive C:?
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>The slowest aspect of getting at a file on a hard disk is in head movement 
>(‘seeking’). If you have only one physical drive then the file is best 
>left where the heads are most likely to be, so where most activity is 
>going on — on drive C:. If you have a second physical drive, it is in 
>principle better to put the file there, because it is then less likely 
>that the heads will have moved away from it. If, though, you have a modern 
>large size of RAM, actual traffic on the file is likely to be low, even if 
>programs are rolled out to it, inactive, so the point becomes an academic 
>one. If you do put the file elsewhere, you should leave a small amount on 
>C: — an initial size of 2MB with a Maximum of 50 is suitable — €” so it 
>can be used in emergency. Without this, the system is inclined to ignore 
>the settings and either have no page file at all (and complain) or make a 
>very large one indeed on C:
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>It seems to me that it is an option that will provide the additional space 
>you need on C:\ ........... and for the price of a possible minor decrease 
>in performance. Space or Performance... which do you need most ???
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