On 15 Aug 00, at 22:17, Diana Benoit wrote:

> I have created a new partition equal to slightly more than 2 1/2 times
> the amount of ram installed on my computer.  I went into the
> "properties" section of "My Computer" and then "Performance."  I then
> went into "Virtual Memory" and selected to let me specify my own memory
> settings.  Then I directed the settings to my new partition and set the
> minimum and maximum to be the same amount of megabytes,  as suggested on
> a previous post a couple of months ago.  However, the settings will not
> stay.  As soon as I click on the "OK's" my system goes right back to
> letting Windows manage my virtual memory. There's nothing else assigned
> to the new partition.  Should I have DOS installed, or Windows or
> something?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

  Windows will revert to managing virtual memory if it cannot use the
manual settings that have been supplied.  Try reducing the swapfile
size by 1-2K.  It may be that the free space on the drive that is
shown is rounded up slightly from what can actually be used.

David G

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