Fred Holmes wrote:
Get a 4GB flash drive, install it "permanently," and put the swap file on it.
Use it all for the swap file. For that portion of the swap file, set the min and max
sizes of the swap file to be the size of the whole drive (as much as Windows will allow,
which is a few megabytes less than all of it). Keep some swap file on the installed hard
drive, and set its minimum size as low as possible. Then, early use of the swap file
should default to the flash drive, but there is swap file available if the flash drive
should fail or become accidentally removed.
Fred Holmes
At 07:36 AM 12/26/2007, Quentin Fisher wrote:
As digital files get larger and more numerous, I find even simple sorting
and labeling tasks get more sluggish. I have a Dell Dimension Pentium 4
running XP. I have maxxed on RAM, and installed a SATA hard dive. Would
upgrading the video card make much of a difference, or have I gotten near
the limits of my processor and bus? Other suggestions?
This seems counter intuitive to me. I would think that writing to
the SATA hard drive from the processor would be way far faster than
writing to a USB thumb drive.
John
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