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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:09 pm
by Ouchyfish
(This post was written by someone that has no clue how xp works-please keep that in mind.)
My brother's PC has 2 drives. One is the original and the other is an exact copy that was put in shortly after he got it. (They were both those OEM drives that comes with HPs)
The question I have is, should there be a pagefile on both drives? One, on C is over a gig, and the one on E is about 300-400 megs.
I am trying to troubleshoot why this fucker runs so slow (not viri, adware, or spyware) but it's difficult to do knowing so little about how this shit works.
I wish there was a way I could just reset his registry and have it register the programs the way 3.1 did.
Anyways Thanks.
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:59 pm
by Tikker
are you asking for help? or just posting a funny
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:35 am
by Ouchyfish
help-was admitting beforehand that I didn't know jack about xp lol
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:39 pm
by Ouchyfish
no help? shit!
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:05 pm
by Harrison
The one that isn't on the same drive as windows isn't necessary.
Unless you somehow have windows managing two seperate page files...in that case I'd give you a freaking cookie...
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:04 pm
by Ouchyfish
So is there a way to stop it from putting one on both drives? Tried to delete the second one but it won't let me...even in safe mode. it says it's in use.
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:42 pm
by Ouchyfish
This might be the cure to his computer running so damn slow then..managing two page files?
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:18 pm
by Tossica
Right click on my computer, click properties, advanced, performance, advanced, virtual memory/change, highlight the drive with the pagefile that you want to remove and set it to "no paging file". Click ok, blah blah blah, reboot. Done.
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:30 pm
by Agrajag
I'm just curious. Is the reason for the two hard drives because they are mirrored drives? If that is the case, you might want to hold off on deleting the other page file. With mirrored drives the primary is the only one that is read. The secondary is only there as a back up. Deleting a page file from a secondary drive on a mirrored drive system can have undesired effects if the primary drive shits the bed.
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:39 pm
by Ouchyfish
Nah it was an oem drive he got and decided to use as a spare drive for storage. I wish like hell that I would have just formatted the damn thing but I hated to waste a good copy of win xp.
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:48 pm
by Ouchyfish
Thank you, Tossica btw!
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:45 pm
by Ouchyfish
Made the change and am starting to see some improvement, however now the commit charge in taskmanager says 185472k/638352k
That sound kosher? Not used to such a huge number =\