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Old July 21st 08, 02:40 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
AAH
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Default WinMe - Win386.SWP

My computer is not loaded with heavy duty stuff and to
this the Win386.swp file has been around 100MB.
It is gradually increasing for about last two months and
average around 250MB.
The total contents of my C: drive/partition are only
3.25GB. and D: partition's are 17.8GB backup store.
The total capacity of the HD is 36.1 GB.
256 MB Extended memory.
Is there anything I can do to reduce the page file size?



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Old July 21st 08, 01:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mike M
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Default WinMe - Win386.SWP

If this really worries you, it's not something that I'd be worrying about,
you can limit the size of the swap file as follows Control Panel | System
| Performance | Virtual Memory and check "Let me specify my own virtual
memory settings". My Win Me system (128MB RAM) runs with a VM around
100MB immediately after booting when doing nothing with the size of the VM
increasing as I open and use applications, especially those working with
largish graphics files.
--
Mike Maltby



AAH wrote:

My computer is not loaded with heavy duty stuff and to
this the Win386.swp file has been around 100MB.
It is gradually increasing for about last two months and
average around 250MB.
The total contents of my C: drive/partition are only
3.25GB. and D: partition's are 17.8GB backup store.
The total capacity of the HD is 36.1 GB.
256 MB Extended memory.
Is there anything I can do to reduce the page file size?


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Old July 21st 08, 02:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
AAH
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Default WinMe - Win386.SWP

Mike

Thanks for your advice.



"Mike M" wrote in message
...
If this really worries you, it's not something that I'd be worrying about,
you can limit the size of the swap file as follows Control Panel | System
| Performance | Virtual Memory and check "Let me specify my own virtual
memory settings". My Win Me system (128MB RAM) runs with a VM around
100MB immediately after booting when doing nothing with the size of the VM
increasing as I open and use applications, especially those working with
largish graphics files.
--
Mike Maltby



AAH wrote:

My computer is not loaded with heavy duty stuff and to
this the Win386.swp file has been around 100MB.
It is gradually increasing for about last two months and
average around 250MB.
The total contents of my C: drive/partition are only
3.25GB. and D: partition's are 17.8GB backup store.
The total capacity of the HD is 36.1 GB.
256 MB Extended memory.
Is there anything I can do to reduce the page file size?




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Old July 22nd 08, 10:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Corday
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Default WinMe - Win386.SWP

The only thing I would say is "don't disable it".
--
Corday


"AAH" wrote:

My computer is not loaded with heavy duty stuff and to
this the Win386.swp file has been around 100MB.
It is gradually increasing for about last two months and
average around 250MB.
The total contents of my C: drive/partition are only
3.25GB. and D: partition's are 17.8GB backup store.
The total capacity of the HD is 36.1 GB.
256 MB Extended memory.
Is there anything I can do to reduce the page file size?




 




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