Really I was wondering about the impact on system configuration, if any.

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

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.

I also try to defrag the page file at every boot using sysinternals pagedefrag.