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Comprehensive Guide to the Windows Paging File

Posted by Zonk on from the overly-blessed-with-RAM dept.

busfahrer writes "Adrian's Rojak Pot has a nice article about the internals of the Windows paging file. It explains what a paging file is and lists the differences between a swapfile and a paging file. But first and foremost, a large part of the article deals with the various methods of optimizing the Windows paging file, thus yielding a notable performance gain for people who are not overly blessed with RAM."

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  1. Re:Defrag first, man. by UCFFool · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OMG, you mean you didn't read the article and possibly learn something?

    Honestly, I wonder why people take the high and mighty road. The number one problem with computers is people simply don't understand them. The number one way to solve this problem is to educate the user about these little facets of the OS.

    The article covers some very basic differences in plain english, and unlike the 'just to do this and leave me alone' attitude, puts the user one step closer to a positive computer experience... a tough thing in today's virus/trojan/adware /. world.

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  2. Does he really believe this? by Peaker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The solution they came up with was to use some space on the hard disk as extra RAM. Although the hard disk is much slower than RAM, it is also much cheaper and users always have a lot more hard disk space than RAM. So, Windows was designed to create this pseudo-RAM or in Microsoft's terms - Virtual Memory, to make up for the shortfall in RAM when running memory-intensive programs.

    Amazing how they manage to turn everything around as though Microsoft invented the world of computing...

    Virtual memory, the term and the implementation have been around long before Microsoft came into existence.

  3. 44 pages long, full of "sponsored links" by snorklewacker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Putting http://text.burstnet.com/* into adblock makes for a slightly less annoying experience, but there's also the fact that it's 44 freaking pages long. Probably getting paid by the site hit or something.

    Do yourself a favor, give this content-lite article a miss. Make a small partition with ntfsresize, put a fixed pagefile on that partition alone. Works on every single version of windows and it's zero maintenance. Tah-dah.

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