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Leigh Jennings <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 7 Jul 2002 09:37:16 +1000
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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.

>>I can get an extra 70 meg or so by moving the driver.cab cabinet
>>file to a data drive also.
>
>
>You can move the swapfile to a differant drive too, at least you can in
>Win9x....... I've never used XP so I can'r be sure but it's worth a look.
>In Win98 it's in Con Panel\System\Performance\Virtual Memory.
>
>If it's the same in XP you can choose to manage your own swapfile and then
>set the folder on a different drive.
>
>Once you have pointed the swapfile to a different drive and rebooted you
>will find a new swapfile has been generated by Windows in that folder. You
>can then go back and delete the original folder giving you almost a gig of
>slack space.


Leigh Jennings
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