guiltypleasures";p="18648 wrote:
Thank you Pangor, I'll have to wait until my bf is home to check most of these things as I'm clueless about swapfiles and all that other tech stuff. I'll show him your post and let him sort though it all. I don't think it's my fan (power supply) because I just bought a new one about a month ago. I still think it has something to do with a couple of pieces of software I've installed, so I'm going to remove and install them again and see if it helps. One of those was
photoshop, I was playing around with the scratch disk property's and I may have messed up something in the process plus I tried to re-load a bunch of my filters and plugins the easy way by copying the folder they were in after I reinstalled it. I think I doubled up on some, and also some don't work because they are missing files (dll's) which weren't in that folder that I copied in.
Yes Tormie, It's great to be able to come here and get help from people, even if I am too computer ignorant to do them all myself lol
Now give me back my coffee!
Microsoft doesn't call it a swapfile anymore. Even though essentially thats what it is...
Now they call it a "Page file", or a "Paging File". and according to Microsoft specifications the proper size of your page file should be double the installed RAM on your machine. For instance, if you have 512MB of ram installed then your "Page File Size" should be 1024MB. Now, anything on the Windows 2000/XP platform is set by default to let Windows manage your page file size. a "Virtual Page File" so to speak. when windows runs out of swap file space, it does what anyone else would do, makes it bigger. Now on to the defragmentation process. Windows 2000 SP 1(some earlier releases don't have it) or later as well as windows XP have a cool command line defrag process. open a command window and type 'defrag /?' and it outputs:
Usage:
defrag <volume> [-a] [-f] [-v] [-?]
volume drive letter or mount point (d: or d:volmountpoint)
-a Analyze only
-f Force defragmentation even if free space is low
-v Verbose output
-? Display this help text
H:>
Now if you were to type in that same Command window 'defrag C:' it will defrag much faster due to the fact a GUI is not running taking up the processor time. you will hear the hard drive work, but you will not see anything until it is done. None the less it will output a small report when it is done.
Also if you want to get most of your 'Page File', boot to safe mode prior to the defrag.
Sorry about your run in with the cops, personally I would have just offered them the coffee....
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