SWAP File Setup on XP

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Braun, I have encountered the Screensaver as well as the not able to hibernate/or suspend the PC or monitor issue in XP PRO and I tried all the BIOS tweaks and such; in the end it was my old Saitek USB driver causing the dilemma. All is well now.

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WOW...I HAVE a Saitek Driver installed on my PC...and better yet, it was not always installed. When I first built the PC, the SS worked just fine. Sometime later it failed. I figured it was something I installed, but could not correlate the loss of SS to a specific "thing".Now you make me think. (I wish I was at HOME) Sometime AFTER creating this box, I obtained the latest and greatest Saitek driver for XP. Sometime after building the box, my SS failed. 2+2=Saitek?Thanks so much for an excellent clue.Best,bt

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John-PaulWith small, fast HDDs being so inexpensive nowadays why not put the swap file on a seperate HDD in its own partition and use the rest of the drive for storage of stuff not currently being used by programs. This way swap file activity won't interfere with other disk activity and vice versa. (I'm no expert but it seems like common sense).David

[virtualstuff 751]

John,In general the swap file size must be set at minimum of your installed memory and maximum 1*3Further you could move the swap file to a second harddisk or at the beginning of your partion... However WinXP (9x and NT kernel comes together) has the same as the previous systems NT3.51/NT4/NT5(Win2K) (NTFS partion) to have a lot of defrag on the HD with respect to the MBR / MFT / SWAP (system files) and the general files.So in general to keep your system healthy there is the boring job of defrag... besides the swap file.However the light version of Diskeeper can't defrag all your files, because WinXP (great part build on Win2K) will still lock files...That's the reason why you can do a defrag during startup....Diskeeper has also a home license, because the full version has the functions to schedule your boring defrag job and forget it and will do it's job for you.It defrag your whole system files during boot and startup before all services will startup and the rest of the files during your logon or at the desktop...We have experience with diskeeper to defrag a lot of PC's and servers scheduled fully automatically :-)So leave the swap file on your partion and go for a good defrag program for example diskeeper :-)Success awfEHAM

[Ray Proudfoot 8,926]

Hi Elrond,I did use Norton Utilities when I had Me but after it trashed a section of my Registry I lost faith in the product. SpeedDisk was a useful part of the package but I'm not going to buy it purely for that. I'll search around on the web and see if I can come up with anything.Thanks for your contributions - much appreciated.Regards,