Guest marx404 Posted June 17, 2008 Posted June 17, 2008 I notice that my page file does not seem to be often used by XP Pro. Can I move it safely to a large capacity USB drive? will it work? I have XP Pro, 2G Pentium 4 , 1.5G SDRAM. -- marx404 _________________
Guest Bruce Chambers Posted June 18, 2008 Posted June 18, 2008 Re: page file on USB stick? marx404 wrote: > I notice that my page file does not seem to be often used by XP Pro. Can I > move it safely to a large capacity USB drive? No. > will it work? No. > I have XP Pro, > 2G Pentium 4 , 1.5G SDRAM. > -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot
Guest John John (MVP) Posted June 18, 2008 Posted June 18, 2008 Re: page file on USB stick? No, Windows does not support pagefile placement on removable drives. For starters the USB device will be unavailable at the early booting stage when the Session Manager creates the pagefile and secondly the accidental removal of the device would almost certainly crash Windows as well as potentailly lead to loss of user data/user files. John marx404 wrote: > I notice that my page file does not seem to be often used by XP Pro. Can I > move it safely to a large capacity USB drive? will it work? I have XP Pro, > 2G Pentium 4 , 1.5G SDRAM. >
Guest Lil' Dave Posted June 18, 2008 Posted June 18, 2008 Re: page file on USB stick? "marx404" <404@404.com> wrote in message news:48584f16$0$31718$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... >I notice that my page file does not seem to be often used by XP Pro. Can I >move it safely to a large capacity USB drive? will it work? I have XP Pro, >2G Pentium 4 , 1.5G SDRAM. > > -- > marx404 > > _________________ > Leave the pagefile at default in location and size is my recommendation. Move on. -- Dave
Guest marx404 Posted June 18, 2008 Posted June 18, 2008 Re: page file on USB stick? thanks, it was worth asking. -- marx404 _________________ "Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@virus.net> wrote in message news:%233C0lxP0IHA.4500@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > "marx404" <404@404.com> wrote in message > news:48584f16$0$31718$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... >>I notice that my page file does not seem to be often used by XP Pro. Can I >>move it safely to a large capacity USB drive? will it work? I have XP Pro, >>2G Pentium 4 , 1.5G SDRAM. >> >> -- >> marx404 >> >> _________________ >> > > Leave the pagefile at default in location and size is my recommendation. > Move on. > -- > Dave >
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