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That MAY NOT BE true in most cases, but I'd be better on the safe side than risk a 1 millionth chance of getting his/her pc locked. You are also asumming s/he is using Windows XP. BTW, I have seen computers locked at boot time because they didn't have enough page file. Kernel mode files (aka drivers) are loaded before the user interface goes up skipping (or failing to load software components) will not. An out of page file before loading the interface prevents loading the interface.

Citizen uglycow (Reply #47): I beta tested Vista, but I did not get all the info... or maybe I did receive it and ignored because it didn't affect me or maybe I ignored some of the info because MS sent a lot of newsletters and emails. Regardless, if MS do attempt to lease Windows it will backfire to them with negative PR and possibly class action suits against them. IT IS A BAD IDEA by definition and if EXECUTED IT WILL BE THE WORST IDEA OF THE CENTURY. Not to offend bean counte

Charge you for using your computer?? Where in blazes did you find out about that? Seriously, I don't know all the fuzz about Vista being bad, wrong and whatever you say. Most of the "bad things" (WGA, Validation, DRM, etc.) from "big brother" is their attempt to secure their stuff from being pirated. Their DRM schema is basically a "I don't trust people because people lie, cheat and lie" statement. If you pay for the stuff you will not have any trouble at all (I haven't g

Warning! If you do not have enough RAM (or lots of programs/utilities that load system/kernel mode/driver files such as antivirus, firewalls, etc.) you'll be unable to boot again with no page file unless you select safe mode at the boot menu. If you have more than one disk/partition clear the page file and set another in the other disk/partition. Reboot and defrag your disk, then reverse the page file change (or not). Or buy (or "try before you buy") a fully featured defrag pro