Joe's point about the fixed size swap file is a very good idea.
It may take you some effort to set it up but this fixed size will cut down on
the fragmention of the C drive. When Windows thinks it needs more virtual,
it will auto-expand the swap file but if you tell it to use a Fixed size, it
will not grow.
The next thing you want to consider is a second hard drive on which you place
the Swap file to get it away from the system and active data files on the C
drive.
The second hard drive does not have to be very large, but at least 1 Gig
would be the minimum. Any other space could be used for long term storage
like old contest logs or last years email archives, things that you do not
look at each month. That way the old stuff does not affect the swap file
performance.
The next thing you want to do is consider using a very large second drive to
be your backup of your C drive. Since prices are down, a second drive could
be partitioned into two or more drives, with one of them being the same size
as your C drive. There are several copy programs that will copy your entire
C drive to this equal size new partition very fast.
> 73 Mike
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