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Would that be the hibernate function 

Graeme McKeague • Sunday 20th January 2008 01:24 GMT

Maybe that is for hibernate - just a suggestion

@Graeme 

Tony Smith, Editor, Reg Hardware • Sunday 20th January 2008 17:52 GMT
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No, it's not the hibernation file - I have hibernation disabled.

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Tony Smith, Editor, Reg Hardware • Sunday 20th January 2008 17:57 GMT
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Done it. Turn off paging, reboot and you can delete pagefile.sys.

A corporate IT guy of my acquaintance - cheers, James - suggested re-enabling paging, choosing a custom pagefile size with identical minimum and maximum sizes. This is handy for me, because I need paging enabled in order to run Photoshop, which requires it.

Setting both to 512MB, I now have a 512MB pagefile.sys, which is a long way from gobbling up my C: drive.

But the question remains: how to I get Windows to have pagefile.sys on my E: SDHC card and not on the C: drive?

Ideas?

qwerty 

Bracken Dawson • Monday 21st January 2008 05:20 GMT
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Surely just highlight C:, choose no paging file, delete C:\pagefale.sys after a reboot.

Then highlight E:, set your 512MBmin 512MBmax page file, and you;re done.

Is E: removable? 

Jon Etkins • Monday 21st January 2008 22:36 GMT

I believe XP will not allow you to place your swap file on a device which the OS recognises as being removable. After all, how could it possibly cope if the volume holding its active swap file was summarily removed?

1MB Page file? 

Bracken Dawson • Thursday 24th January 2008 20:05 GMT
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I know Photoshop needs one, but does it ever use it?

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