Pagefile sharing?

[mistme]

Hi everyone.

Here is my situation.

I dual boot XP Pro and Vista Home Premium, XP for game and Vista for everything else.

I have set-up my partitions like this, a 3GB partition then a 15GB partition which has XP on and then a 20GB partition for Vista and then the remaining space is for my apps and games.

I use the first partition for the pagefile to keep it separate from the rest. My question is is it fine for both systems to fill the partition with there page file and therefore sharing the same actual file.

when i set-up xp to use the entire partition and then told Vista to use it too Vista said that a pagefile already exists and should it overight it, I said yes and rebooted. Both operating systems seem to run OK and just as I hoped they would, I just want to make sure that its not going to cause a problem.

I have XP set to clear its pagefile on shutdown and would do the same for Vista, I just cant find out how, so if someone know how that would be good too.

Thanks....

[RShady]

It's perfectly fine for both OSes to share the same paging file>

Clearing the paging file:

Windows XP:

Bring up regedit.exe

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called "ClearPageFileAtShutdown" and set it

to "Value Data" 1 (enables clearing pagefile), 0 (disables it).

The above change won't take effect until the next re-boot.

Vista:

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

Change "ClearPageFileAtShutdown" to 1.