Yes Jose, I would. Win95 needs a swap file  or maybe a better word would be
 * requires  * one no matter how much ram you have. So I think it is a good
idea to keep the swap file isolated on it's own partition in order to keep
your C drive free from fragmentation. This approach will also allow Scan
disk or whatever Defrag program you use to do the job faster as  it won't
have to work around a dynamic swap file. I also have a install directory on
that swap partition that I extract install files to which makes it easy for
me to virus scan, isolate and remove  install files. On a Win95 machine you
may or may not  * notice *  a performance increase depending on your setup
but it will definitely keep things cleaner and make housekeeping easier.
Mark
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>Mark,Should I bother to do this on my 128MB RAM machine? I only have one
drive
>on it.
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>Jose


>MAt 08:05 PM 2/21/98 -0500, you wrote:
ark Rode wrote:
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>> With Win 95 you want to put your swap file on your fastest physical drive.
>> Which partition isn't all that important although I like to create a  <D
>> drive> partition of 125 megs specifically for the swap file. You should
>> also set the size of the swap file  to somewhere between 50 to 100 megs.
>> Telling Win95 where to put it and how big to make it will keep if from
>> constantly fragmenting all over your hard drive and Win 95 won't keep
>> wasting time dynamically adjusting it. On my Win95 machine I have 64 megs
>> of ram and a 100 meg swap file. I don't need a 100 meg swap file....I would
>> be fine with 50 but I have an abundance of hard drive space so why not.
>> Some might say that making your swap file very small will force 95 to use
>> ram but I have not found this to be true and making the swap file too small
>> can be problematic.
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