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zippy, on Jun 13 2004, 06:02 PM, said:

.........Windows will expand a file that starts out too small and may shrink it again if it is larger than necessary,

Hey, that's only when you let windows manage the swap by itself (The "System managed size" option) - such crap won't and shouldn't happen after manually setting limits (like what ethux is trying to do here).

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I've changed my paging file to Drive D through the registry tweak given above...what I'm wondering is: do I still need the pagefile.sys that is on Drive C ? Or can I delete that? (I haven't tried yet, so I'm assuming Windows will let me)...

Does anyone know if I need this other pagefile.sys file?

[prathapml]

If you locate your pagefile onto any other partition, you actually lose performance. Set your pagefile to be on a different *DRIVE* (i.e., HDD) and it is beneficial.

Now, about deleting the pagefile.sys on drive C:
1. Windows necessarily wants a minimum of 2 MB swap-space (viz. page-file) on the system drive.
2. That is in order to be able to make a memory dump (when it crashes).
3. But you can still dis-regard the above directive & altogether eliminate a pagefile from C: drive.