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Old 17-07-2008, 08:31 PM   #10 (permalink) Top
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Originally Posted by jason
Can I just ask how the page file affects display or visual content please?
well to put it simply Vista uses the swapfile as virtual memory (RAM) so when your system runs out of RAM it uses the some HDD space as virtual memory, and obviously HDDs are slower than actual RAM, so using HDD space as virtual memory is much much slower

for a full description see wikipedias Virtual Memory page

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Originally Posted by jason
Please could you help me out a little with where i put the 12288MB and what I should put in the other.
12288MB in both initial & maximum, then the swapfile (showing my age. because generally today its called a pagefile) size can't change, to keep Vista from continually resizing the swapfile & keep file fragmentation to a minimum
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Thanks again m8
no probs, glad to help!

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