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swap file
I have a pentium3 800mb with 126mb/10gb. I have just set-
up a 3gb partition and installed WinME, and few applications so far - antivirus, antispam, BTbroadband, partiton magic and MSWord. I am getting warning messages that I have insufficient hard disk space. On checking what is filling up the disk I find that file C:\Windows\Win386.swp is 1.8gb in size. This is presumably the swap file - why is it so large and how can I set the max size of this? Nevil N.B. in my address change anon to freeola |
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swap file
You need to reboot to DOS using a floppy boot, and delete the WIN386.SWP
file - with any luck it won't rebuild itself to any such size again. What caused it? - Sh%t happens! Can you prevent it happening again? - probably not, but it very unlikely to happen in any case, if you shut down the PC properly (IIRC, the main cause of a corrupted swapfile is shutting down the PC from the plug, rather than the Start menu) -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp wrote in message ... I have a pentium3 800mb with 126mb/10gb. I have just set- up a 3gb partition and installed WinME, and few applications so far - antivirus, antispam, BTbroadband, partiton magic and MSWord. I am getting warning messages that I have insufficient hard disk space. On checking what is filling up the disk I find that file C:\Windows\Win386.swp is 1.8gb in size. This is presumably the swap file - why is it so large and how can I set the max size of this? Nevil N.B. in my address change anon to freeola |
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