i have 2gb of memory in my XP pro machine (2.2ghz c2d) and i have NEVER seen it top 80% usage at any time (i've got a memory gauge on the desktop, and when i run games/movies/apps full-screen, i move it to the other monitor so i can still see it)

should i even bother with a page file? i already partition off a 2gb spot and set the page file to fill up that partition 100% to avoid fragmentation, but if there's no reason to use it, i'd just as soon give the space back to my main partition

1/27/2008 4:47:59 PM

2gb is hardly enough to be worrying about. Also, partitions only have a moderate tolerance to having their sizes changed, even with the best of tools. Unless you're having performance problems,I don't know why you would want to mess with it.

1/27/2008 5:02:50 PM

oh, durr

i'm reformatting and installing the OS onto one drive, with the "my documents" on another (video, audio, pictures, etc.)...currently, it's all on one drive:

C: windows (~50gb)
D: mydocs (~148gb)
E: page (~2gb, hidden)

the OS is going onto an 80gb 7200.11 seagate (perpendicular recording) and the mydocs is going onto 500gb...if i don't need to create an extra partition on the OS drive, i don't want to

[Edited on January 27, 2008 at 5:34 PM. Reason : .]

1/27/2008 5:32:17 PM