Do I Realy need a Page file

[krismark]

What are the consequences of disabling the page file with 2GB in XP pRo ?

[prathapml]

No negative consequences!

You could safely disable the pagefile (atleast till your apps start to demand a pagefile when u start using that much of memory).

[albator]

I think that it depend on software, even with w gig of ram some games use the paging file, but It sure that in windows you will not needed it. Why not use a memory manager with automatic page file configuration, you will see how much it use paging file with different application...

[Davor]

Windows still continues to use a pagefile. It is documented in one of the MS KB articles ... you should look there for detailed info.

Also, you will not gain any speed, if that's what you think.

[HybridShadow]

The most you would get out of it would be saving a small bit of HD space

I guess you could make the PF very tiny, i think removing it causes problems

[Andromeda43]

Every version of windows since 95 was designed to use a swapfile/pagefile.

Getting your kernal out of there and into ram however will greatly increase performance. I found the following tweak on the internet. It definitely works.

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Memory Performance Tweak

These Settings will fine tune your systems memory management -at least 256MB of ram recommended, 512 preferred for first tweak.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \

Session Manager \ Memory Management

1.DisablePagingExecutive -double click it and in the decimal put a 1 - this allows XP to keep data in memory now instead of paging sections of ram to harddrive.

2.LargeSystemCache- double click it and change the decimal to 1 -this allows XP Kernal to Run in memory improves system performance a lot.

3.Create a new dword and name it IOPageLockLimit - double click it and set the value in hex - 4000 if you have 128MB of ram; or set it to 10000 if you have 256MB; set it to 40000 if you have 512MB of ram, or more.

This tweak will speed up your disk cache

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I use this a lot and it really DOES help.

Hands OFF the page file.

Cheers,

Andromeda43

[duhu]

Some games doesn work without pagefile, ive tried an experiment with my bro on a 3gigDDR400 Kingstone PC and it doesnt wanna work, so u must know that some games cant work without it.

[Andromeda43]

I learned my lesson about messing with the windows swapfile/pagefile a long time ago.

Experience is the best teacher.

Now, the only time I do anything with it is to Delete it just before I do my Ghost backups. I also delete the old Restore files and all the temp files, cookies, histories, etc. That keeps the size of the Image file down by almost a gig.

Then when Windows XP reboots, it just re-creates the pagefile. No fault,,,No foul.

Please take my word for it, and just leave it alone.

Cheers!

Andromeda43