I have WIndowsXP and all my programs on Drive-C. Drive-F is just pics, music, and other files...no programs. Drive-D is just my recovery files and is not used. It's a partition of C:.

DO I have to set it for Drive-F as well? I hadn't even considered that.

A good rule of thumb with virtual memory is to do as fuzzy said. Make it 1.5x your physical memory for both min and max. Also, put it on your fastest hard drive, preferably NOT on your OS drive (C:).
I'm not real Photoshop savvy but I think you should set your cache to a different drive than your OS drive also.
One final thought. Viewing and or creating images of Skinhit in negligees will also cause cluster corruption and will cause your hard drive to more or less try to escape from itself and go in to denial.

Thanks for the advice guys. Where is the pagefile located on the C: drive?

Yes.



Set to No paging file.



The file itself is called pagefile.sys and is only visible if you have the option of Hide protected operating system files un-checked. (Open my computer, tools, folder options, view and scroll down the list )

Hope this Heps yaz. (had to throw in something for zubaz so he didn't feel lonely )   

   The force is strong with this one...

At least we are word for word - even Po can't get confused with that. Uh, on second thoughts...

 

 

Okay. I'm gonna reset it. Then reboot.
I guess I will have to wait and see if it works.

Should I notice any immediate difference?

2 gb's of ram and you're getting low virtual memory prompts????? You shouldn't even be hitting the page file. Look in Task Manager and see what's leaking.

Po', unless you have dual-channel memory, you won't see a huge difference in speed. The difference is:

With normal memory slots, the PC uses one RAM stick until it is full, then begins to draw off the second stick.

With dual-channel memory, the PC divides memory usage between the two sticks simultaneously. Basically, it runs faster because the processor draws off both sticks of RAM at the same time.

My ASUS mobo has 4 RAM slots, each capable of running 1 gb. Right now I have 2 gb of ram (I had 4, but one died, and I sold the other to my friend...his 1 gb stick fried out) running dual-channel. And my PC runs very fast......

Something to consider when moving your page file to the second hard drive, only do this if your second hard drive is internal. If it is an external USB drive the access time is going to increase dramatically which would slow your system down.

Has anyone tried moving the page file to a USB ready boost 4 gig thumb drive? In theory, it should be faster than a hard drive.

Think I'll try it and see.  

Okay...it would now appear my PC is rightly f___ed.

msconfig will not open through 'run'...though when I check Winpatrol, it says it's open.

The console panel opens for Defrag...but when I click analyze or defrag, it freezes..through Winpatrol says it's running.

My cursor has developed this new habit of vanishing, usually on the desktop, not on an application. I nudge the mouse and it reappears. It does this whenever it senses there is a chance to cause a blood vessel to bust in my brain.

Snag -It is playing the same game as msconfig, except only when it's feeling like being bitchy, not everytime.

I can open msconfig with Launchy, but I get Microsoft NET Framework 1.1 Configuration panel (?)

I just reformatted and re-installed XP and everything about 2 months ago, the memory upgrade about a month ago.

I really don't want to have to do all that again. Can anyone offer assistance?

also....last night when things seemed to go buggy, I ran chkdisk. I got a message..
"Windows has replaced a bad cluster. (don't quote me on this. I wrote it down but left it at home) in section 15086 (?) in the name of /hibrfil.sys (?)"

hibrfil.sys is your hibernation file,in xp it comes under power options,unticking the hibernation box & i assume a restart will delete it,(not sure if you need to restart but i do as i usually defrag in safe mode),you also need to untick the hiber as it does'nt defrag