It sounds like your diagnosis is the most likely candidate.    Right-click
on my computer, click on the Performance tab, and then click on the Virtual
Memory button.  In here is the settings for the swap file.  Click on the
"Let me specify my own virtual memory settings." option.

Here is where some decisions need to be made.  First, you may want to
specificy a static swap file size.  To do this you would set the minimum and
maximum settings to be equal.  As a "rule-of-thumb" I set my swap file to
2.5 times the amount of memory, up to 250MB.  After that I usually set it to
2.0 times the amount of memory.  A very large philisophical discussion could
be fueled by this rule, so my disclaimer here is that it's "MY"
rule-of-thumb and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of others on the
list.

The next decision is "where" to put the swap file.  Unless you have another
physical drive in the system, you want to look at which logical drive can
most afford the space.  Select that drive as the Hard disk location for the
file.  Click OK when done.  You'll receive a warning message about not
letting Windows manage your virtual memory.  Click Yes here and the Close at
the System Properties box.  You will then be prompted to restart Windows.
If you choose not to, the new swap file settings will take effect the next
time you reboot.

If this does not fix the problem, then you might want to investigate the
possibility of a virus, or another program creating it's own version of a
swap file and then not releasing the disk space when it's done.  Hope this
helps.

Kyle Elmblade
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From: "Charles Waldron" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 6:06 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] HD is 'full'


The hd on my wife's computer will periodically become suddenly
 full. It is a 4.2 gig drive partitioned into c (2.0 gig used as boot,
 program installations etc.), d(1.5 gig used primarily for data storage
 and files ) and e for her copy of win95c. The C; drive is about half
 full  when booted up but after some inconsistent length of time (an
 hour or two or a day or two) the properties of this drive show that it
 is full and she needs to re-boot to get anything to function. My quess
is that somehow the swap file has expanded to take over the entire
 capacity of the drive/partition. Is this what is happening and if so how
 do I fix it?
 TIA

                                 Charles Waldron

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