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Old 08-01-07, 09:56 AM   #12
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I have read that disabling virtual memory, rebooting then defragging with the installed windows program will also defrag the page file. Then enable virtual memory when done, reboot. Is there any truth to this?
Yes.

Virtual memory is nothing more than an area on the harddrive that is reserved to 'park' software or data currently running in RAM that does not need to be used right now but has been used recently or will be used in the near future.

If you set your virtual memory to 0 then there is no page file on the disk. So, it effectively deletes it. But with NTFS formatting you shouldn't have to defrag your disks as often as with FAT anyways. I also suspect that Windows deletes the page file anyways when you shut it down.
These are the things I'm wondering. I have it set up as a NTFS system. I defrag about once every two weeks as my daughters load up Barbie games and things off the internet etc. Sponge Bob games can slow things down At any rate, if I disable VM and defrag, effectively I clean up VM and start fresh?

I have basically the same system as you with exception of 2 gig DD400 and X1300 XGE 512mb vidcard. How does your system handle SH4?
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