>>Its on a special partition that is only used for the page file.
>>


>The important point is that the paging file is on a different _physical_ 
>drive to the operating system.
>If the partition shares the same HDD as the C drive (operating system 
>etc etc) then there will be no benefit because that HDD still has to 
>work just as hard.

>A partition devoted to the paging file but on a separate and less busy 
>physical drive - say where you store data or images - would be much 
>better since access to the file is less likely to be queued behind other 
>tasks that the HDD is performing.

>Jonathan

Hi Jonathan.

Thanks for the tip. Actually the paging file is on a different physical
drive and I have another drive just for PS scratch. The box has 4 hard
drives in all, all but one partitioned and that's the startup drive (the
fastest IDE drive (10.000 rpm) I could get my hands on at the time of
purchase.) Still I find Photoshop CS way slower than PS 7.0.1. 

Chris


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