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    Swap Partition

    Recently at work I got a 120GB drive. Not going to fill it up with Word Documents ... but I allocated 1GB as my Windows paging file, Linux has a swap part so I thought something similar in Windows. Should help produce less defragmentation of my other drivers partitions.

    What y'all think? I read it somewhere it was recommended but haven't tried it till now. Anyone else done this?

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    I've used similar methods in the past - it tends to help prevent rapid fragmentation. Not got any hard figures though.
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    windows supports swap files only, no swap partitions. there is a workaround though

    create the partition you want to use, assign it a mount point (i'd give it a folder in c: such as c:\swappartition rather than wasting a letter on it), right-click on my computer, properties, advanced, performance, advanced, change, click "no paging file" & "set" on c:\, then set 2-2.5x your physical ram in both boxes on the swap partition & set. reboot.

    windows will throw up the "disk cleanup wizard" all the time on the partition as it's full, so...
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies \ Explorer
    add a Dword Value called NoLowDiskSpaceChecks and set the Data Value to 1 to turn it off.

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