Hi Idontwantspam, thanx for the reply. The laptop is a Core 2 Duo Centrino, and in fact my first ever system running a Core 2 duo, so I'm not sure if that's normal. On my old desktop, 2.6Ghz single core with 512 mb or RAM, and a few start up programs like antivirus etc, the Peak value is on average 200,000 upon every startup.. but on the laptop, the value stays the same, at 670,304. I have also set 1000mb for both min and max for the pagefile on both my desktop and laptop. Not sure if this has any affect on anything though.