duffman1234 Posted August 22, 2005 CID Share Posted August 22, 2005 Hey, is the pagefile.sys safe to delete, because when i put pagefile setting to system managed size it says are u sure u want to overwries pagefile.sys. I set it to no page file before that heppened. So should i delete it? Or overwrite? IF not what should i set pagefile to? It says i have 2.18 GHZ, 496 MB ram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted August 22, 2005 CID Share Posted August 22, 2005 the recommened size of the pagefile should be 1.5*amount of ram in the system.. This is a good guide for windows xp and 2000.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duffman1234 Posted August 22, 2005 Author CID Share Posted August 22, 2005 Where is the guide, so should i delete the pagefile.sys in the c drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted August 22, 2005 CID Share Posted August 22, 2005 Here is a link for Virtual Memory. It really helped me understand it a lot better. Also it has a formula for setting it. Good luck. http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duffman1234 Posted August 22, 2005 Author CID Share Posted August 22, 2005 Well i set the pagefile to 744 on both maximum and inital. 496x1.5 And the pagefile.sys is in the C drive, i hope thats right. I only have 1 drive, and its C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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