Windows uses a virtual memory system that adjusts to the amount of memory
present and the use of the system. When more memory is available it will
use it in preference to the swapfile/pagefile. It will cache more data from
the hard drive (VCACHE) to speed hard drive performance.

But if you load a large program or a large data set, Windows will
re-allocate memory from VCACHE to the system pool, and if necessary, use
swapfile/pagefile to expand physical memory.

All this is done automatically, and works best if left alone.

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"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

The default Windows settings, unless you experience problems.

I find it hard to believe that the default settings are the most
efficient when you have 256 or 512 mb ram.

I say this because when 98 came out, the typical pc had 16mb of ram
and 32 or 64 mb of ram was seen as the outer limits.

So my perception is that given 10 to 20 times the amount of ram, there
must be optimizations that can be made over the default settings.