Somewhere on teh intarweb "Patrick Vervoorn" typed:

In article <48a6134f@news2.actrix.gen.nz>,
~misfit~ <misfit61nz@hooya.com.au> wrote:

Somewhere on teh intarweb "~misfit~" typed:

Somewhere on teh intarweb "Patrick Vervoorn" typed:

Hmmm, I did that (5GB C:), but that gets small very quickly. That
is/was with swap on C: too, so that then gets moved to D:.

That's odd. My C: is fine at 5GB, even with XP SP3 installed
(uninstall files located on data partition). It still has ~1GB free
despite me having a few 3rd party apps/utils installed there (Java,
AVG, Acronis, PerfectDisk, Nero...).

Should have mentioned that SOP for me is to not only put the
pagefile on another drive but also redirect 'My Documents", OE store
and IE cache to a data drive. (Not that I use IE...)

I don't use the 'My Documents' and also don't use Outlook Express.

I use 'My Documents' as quite a few programmes want to save there by 
default. I found it easier to make one change (the location of 'My 
Documents' rather than chamge each programmes default save path.

I use OE due to inertia. It's what I started using and, even though I've 
tried Agent, Mozilla and a few others I find them all a bit of a hassle. I 
just want to get the posts are reply to them in the manner to which I've 
become accustomed. Every other newsreader has been slower for me to use or 
doesn't thread properly....

The
cache remains on C: though, as does the inital pagefile.

I much prefer a fixed-size pagefile on a seperate partition, preferably a 
seperate HDD.

Things tend
to get a bit cluttered after about half a year to a year that way
with a 5GB C:, which is why I upped it on my recent machines.

Fair enough.

Also, with the current size of HDs, 5 or 10 or 25GB doesn't make much
difference anymore. ;)

I find that Windows is a lot faster (noticeably so) when it's loading and 
working from a small area of disk. When confined like that it can't throw 
temp files all over the disk, then thrash the heads when it needs to access 
them. <shrug> Whatever works huh? ;-)
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