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  1. Apr 3rd, 2000, 04:17 PM #1
    Mark Sreeves
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    Yeah I know it's not VB...

    It sounds like it ought to be a memory paging system type of thing (getting technical now)

    This file gets written to when I first bootup my PC (NT4) and is now 204Mb. Why is it so large?
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  2. Apr 3rd, 2000, 05:55 PM #2
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    It's your swapfile, virtual memory of NT.
    You can set the min and max size in the System control panel applet (performance tab).
    If it's so big, it usually means that either the initial size of the pagefile is set very high, or you have a *LOT* of programs running for which windooz need to swap a lot...My initial size is 139mb, with 128mb RAM. Right now it's 142mb...
    Hope this helps

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  3. Apr 3rd, 2000, 06:04 PM #3
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    Thanks for that Crazy D
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