Mark Rode wrote:
> 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.
Mark,Should I bother to do this on my 128MB RAM machine? I only have one drive
on it.
Jose
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