Putting an old and usable hard disk back into service is a good thing. As has been said set paging file (swap) to twice RAM. However consider, repointing all temp folders (system, and your programs, especially web browsers) so that all transitory acitivity is on this hard disk as well. So if all you have is 2GB hard disk, maybe sway at 1.3 GB and 0.7 GB for temp folders is not a bad idea. To make you swap efficient it should be fixed. But more importantly you more effectively control fragmentation. Also. Have you maxed out you RAM - in so far as off-the-shelf boards have RAM capacity crippled to 2-3GB generally (it ain't no server board) and with RAM so cheap, IMHO every board should be at max RAM.
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Putting an old and usable hard disk back into service is a good thing. As has been said set paging file (swap) to twice RAM. However consider, repointing all temp folders (system, and your programs, especially web browsers) so that all transitory acitivity is on this hard disk as well. So if all you have is 2GB hard disk, maybe sway at 1.3 GB and 0.7 GB for temp folders is not a bad idea. To make you swap efficient it should be fixed. But more importantly you more effectively control fragmentation. Also. Have you maxed out you RAM - in so far as off-the-shelf boards have RAM capacity crippled to 2-3GB generally (it ain't no server board) and with RAM so cheap, IMHO every board should be at max RAM.