Question: How does everyone set their page/swap files for windows virtual memory?
Hit me up in the comments on how you set your Windows page file?
I also try to put the swap file on its own partition.
What do you Admins do? Let us know…
No trackbacks yet.
Is this the new I-Pad killer? Lenovo Ideapad Hybrid – Why didn’t Apple think of this?
February 15, 2010 - 9:33 am
Tags: hardware, hybrid, lenovo, review, tablet, touchscreen, windows
Posted in General, Reviews | 1 comment
Hello Boys and Girls,
It seems other companies aside from Apple are putting their thinking caps on and breaking all kinds of molds. There was a mold. Apple didn’t exactly break the mold for tablets, as shown in this nifty diagram. All they did was scale it up. An overgrown cellphone won’t last very long in [...]
A Tale of Two Admins.
October 15, 2009 - 3:59 am
Tags: How To, Tips, windows
Posted in Questions | 7 comments
Please follow this email chain between myself and our friend Karl AKA ATA.
—————————————
ME
Here’s the scenario….
Backed up info off old laptop to external HD.
During XP install I saw two identical drives…nuked the first partition and tried to install. XP said no. Nuked the 2nd one…XP allowed the install. JOY!!!
You know where this is going don’t you…..
Anywho…it [...]
Hey Cheapskate, Burn ISOs for free on any Windows Platform!
August 4, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: Free, How To, review, Tips, windows
Posted in How To, Reviews | 7 comments
So you don’t want to dole out the big bucks for some fancy smancy cd/dvd authoring suite just to burn cd’s and disk images? Or how about you don’t want the bloat from said suite?
No it’s probably that you are just like me and a big cheapskate when it comes to buying software!
Either which [...]
How can I use Speech Recognition in Windows Vista?
July 14, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: How To, windows
Posted in How To, Questions | 4 comments
Have you ever wanted to talk to your computer? You know like “Music On” or “Kill Stupid Flanders!“
Well in Windows Vista, you can! And it is as easy as this:
Click the Start menu >> Click Control Panel >> Click Speech Recognition. >> Click Start Speech Recognition >> Now you can tell your computer what [...]
I have hundres of files to rename help me Admin!
June 24, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: How To, Tips, windows
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, How To | 2 comments
Yes, we know you have taken a million digital photos over the last year, on your fancy shmancy new camera. And we also know the holiday season is almost upon us. Being the geek that you are, you could not just leave your pictures named digital_image_13456.jpg for your slide shows…
We just couldn’t have that now, [...]
4 Simple Steps to Change Your Computer Sounds
Tired of your standard Windows Startup and Shutdown tunes?
If you’re like me, you use your Windows-based computer almost every day. The startup and shutdown sounds have just gotten a little boring to be honest. Here are some simple steps to use your favorite voice, music excerpt, or sound for your computer’s start-up and shutdown sequence. [...]
What are Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files? Can I delete them? Do I need them and how can i make them stop coming back?
April 13, 2009 - 1:31 am
Tags: Tips, windows
Posted in How To | 2 comments
James from Virginia wanted to know if it was safe to delete these Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files from his network. Check out our answer and step by step removal tips.
Running in a mixed Windows/Mac environment I find it annoying to deal with all the little artifacts the great OS’s leave behind. All of our mixed [...]
Windows Quick Tip: Set up keyboard shortcuts for your most used icons.
April 5, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: How To, Tips, windows shortcuts
Posted in How To | 4 comments
It’s very annoying and counter productive for your hands to leave the keyboard as you use your mouse to click, click, clickity click click away at something.
Join the ranks of power users to add keyboard shortcuts for every computer task you do. Yup Any Task!
Built into Windows is the ability to let you assign a [...]
Can I hide the Sceduled Tasks and Printers Folders in the Network view?
By default your windows XP machine shows the Printers and Faxes share along with the Scheduled Tasks folder. You can make use of the scheduled tasks folder like this or use a remote printer share to quickly install a remote printer.
Some people like this, most people don’t use it and a few people REALLY hate [...]
Last night Ubuntu saved my life – How I used Ubuntu to recover ALL my files…
March 30, 2009 - 4:41 am
Tags: backup, Troubleshooting, Ubuntu, windows
Posted in How To, Linux, Reviews | 8 comments
Hello Boys and Girls,
Commodore 64 here to bring you another horror story from binary-land. Lord knows I’ve been through hell and back with computers. Overheating CPUs, which were fixed by the cold of the winter outside my apt; crashing hard drives which were fixed or accessed by various means; faulty power supplies, which had me [...]
June 20, 2007 - 9:39 pm
I usually set it at like 3000 on both fields, with a set size so windows doesnt have to resize the the page file all the time. Been doin it since windows 95.
Click to Reply to This Comment.
June 20, 2007 - 9:51 pm
Yup same here just keepin’ old skool. win 95 ol’ skool
Click to Reply to This Comment.
June 20, 2007 - 10:30 pm
stupid newb question – how do i set the swap and what does it do?
Click to Reply to This Comment.
June 21, 2007 - 1:12 am
I set the page file on a separate partition (Like Linux Swap), and twice the amount of RAM. I actually set the amount of RAM for the low, and twice the size of ram for the high.
I also try to defrag the page file at every boot using sysinternals pagedefrag.
Click to Reply to This Comment.
June 21, 2007 - 1:16 am
Alex:
Right Click “My Computer”> Click on the Advanced tab> Select performance settings> Click on the Advanced tab again> then click on the change button at the bottom. There You can change your page file settings.
Swap or page is your computer’s virtual memory.
Click to Reply to This Comment.
December 10, 2008 - 8:46 am
I just don’t use any swap file, with enough RAM, you can do without and it’s blazing fast!
Click to Reply to This Comment.
Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
December 10th, 2008 at 10:44 am
How much memory do you have and what OS are you running?
Click to Reply to This Comment.
December 11, 2008 - 6:49 am
I have always set the fixed size to twice the real RAM. From the perspective of operating systems and file management services, a fixed size file is more easily managed than a variable size file – when it comes to windows performance in particular, less (less management of the swap file) is more (more efficient operation).
I have a question for some of you – why do you put the swap file on a separate partition? What do you expect to gain from it? I am guessing you are using a separate partition on the same physical drive, am I correct? If you put swap on a separate physical drive, then yes you will get more efficient windows operation; if you put it on the same physical drive, you may actually experience decreased performance as the disk heads now have to move away from the application disk areas, and to the swap area, only to go back to the application area to get more data, then back to the swap area to page out even more memory, then … well, I think you get the picture. if you only have 1 physical disk, a single fixed-size swap file, located in the middle of the allocated data, is the most efficient.
-Dave
Click to Reply to This Comment.
Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
December 11th, 2008 at 8:38 am
That is correct Dave – but if you do have 2 separate drives you would then realize the benefit of keeping the swap and your file system separate.
Click to Reply to This Comment.
December 15, 2008 - 8:07 pm
Anyone tried placing the page file on a dedicated flash drive only?
Click to Reply to This Comment.
Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
December 16th, 2008 at 5:42 am
How fast a drive? It could slow down performance if the drive is older.
Click to Reply to This Comment.
December 16, 2008 - 6:21 am
I’ve got Kingston, Toshiba, and Sandisk. All quite new. How does one go about testing their ’speeds?’
Really I was wondering about the impact on system configuration, if any.
Click to Reply to This Comment.