How do change location of swapfile ?

[tom bergerson]

David Rennalls wrote:
>
> Is there a way to change where Windows puts the swapfile, right now
> windows manages the swapfile, and I'm running out of space on Drive C,
> but have lots of space on another drive. Any suggestions ?
>
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before you do anything about changing your swap file go here and follow
the instructions

http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/win95ann6.html#03

of particular importance is to use nortons speed disk or ms defragment
on all your drives before and after you change the swap file.

tb...@mindspring.com

[David Rennalls]

[Jason]

Right Click My Computer
Click The Properties Context Sensitive Menu
(The Win95 System Tab Box Appears)
Click The Performance Tab
Click The Virtual Memory Button OR (Alt V)
Select The Option ("Let Me Select My Own Virtual Memory Settings)
(Select The Hard Disk Drop Down Menu Box and select the drive you wish to
contain your Windows swap file.)
Click O.K
(A dialog box then appears saying that "you have decided to manage the swap
file your self and that windows may not restart or run correctly, and
another heap of warning stuff. Just click O.K : I have done this many a
time and on many machines and have hasd no errors due to changing the path
of the swap file. If however you did, just change the option back to "Let
windows manage my Virtual memory settings.")
Thats it.

David Rennalls <dren...@chat.carleton.ca> wrote in article
<32B719...@chat.carleton.ca>...

[Larry Schenk]

Rumplestiltskin wrote:
>
> IMO, the easiest way to specify the swapfile location is to add the
> following statement to the [386enh] section of your system.ini file:
>
> PagingFile=drive letter:\folder name\file name
>
> For example, the statement
>
> PagingFile=C:\win386.swp
>
> locates my swapfile, named win386.swp, in the root directory of my C:
> drive. I still leave Windows 95 to manage the size of the swapfile.
>
> Note that Windows 95 must be re-started for this system.ini change to take
> affect.

>
> David Rennalls <dren...@chat.carleton.ca> wrote in article
> <32B719...@chat.carleton.ca>...
> > Is there a way to change where Windows puts the swapfile, right now
> > windows manages the swapfile, and I'm running out of space on Drive C,
> > but have lots of space on another drive. Any suggestions ?
> >
> > _______________________________________________________________
> > ___ __
> > / _ \ ___ __ ____ ___/ /
> > David Rennalls / // // _ `/ |/ / // _ /
> > dren...@chat.carleton.ca /____/ \_,_/|___/_/ \_,_/
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> >

What is so hard going into conrol panel/system/performance/virtual memory/let me decide button and telling it
where you want the swapfile?
When windows gives you the message just let it have control back again,
but the place for the swap file will be changed.
/select

[Rumplestiltskin]