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    Vista Pagefile

    What should the page file for Vista be set at? I remember being told for XP its best to have about 1.5* Amount of RAM and was wondering if it should be the same for Vista?

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    Doesn't it set itself? Unless you have good reason to change it, just leave it at the default.
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    Quote Originally Posted by peterb View Post
    Doesn't it set itself? Unless you have good reason to change it, just leave it at the default.
    I know it does for XP but I don't have Vista yet, but I heard it helps to set it manually.

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    from whom?

    only advantage is to put it on a different HDD exclusively.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    from whom?

    only advantage is to put it on a different HDD exclusively.
    When I used to play a MMO the tech support/members on the forums posted ways to increase performance and that was one.

    Only different HDD? What about different partitions?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nabobalis View Post
    When I used to play a MMO the tech support/members on the forums posted ways to increase performance and that was one.

    Only different HDD? What about different partitions?
    Not unless the partition is on a diff disk.

    You should also be aware that with IDE disks this will only give you an improvement if the disks are on diff controllers/channels.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nabobalis View Post
    What should the page file for Vista be set at? I remember being told for XP its best to have about 1.5* Amount of RAM and was wondering if it should be the same for Vista?
    That rule of thumb is a myth, always was, you need a page file the size of whatever memory you consume, the default setting is decent but prone to promote fragmention. For e.g. if you run programs that use 2Gb of memory, and you have 512Mb of RAM, then you're 512Mb short of your needed 2Gb, just use a bit of common sense and savvy.
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