Re: Not enough space on C drive
- From: Ron Martell <ron.martell@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:02:23 -0800
"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>You can uninstall and then reinstall some of your applications the D drive
>which should free up quite a bit of space and you can move your swap
>file/virtual memory entirely to the D drive which could actually improve
>performance. I don't think moving your application to the D drive will slow
>anything down unless your C drive is a better performing drive but I bet
>your D drive is the better performer being newer. If you have hibernation
>enabled on your computer be sure to disable that also in Control Panel/power
>options. You can also move your My Documents folder by right clicking it,
>selecting properties - move. --- Steve
>
>http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php --- great article on swap file
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307886/ --- how to move swap file.
>
It should be mentioned that there can be some undesirable consequences
if the swap file (paging file actually) is moved to a different
partition on the boot drive, such as it will make it impossible to
save the system failure memory dumps which *require* that there be a
paging file on the boot drive.
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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