Schedule page file defrag

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We'll give you the honest truth. Table of Contents. Subscribe on YouTube! Did you enjoy this tip? We cover Windows, Mac, software and apps, and have a bunch of troubleshooting tips and how-to videos. It was running Windows XP and had been used for three straight days without rebooting. It had 1. The initial page size was megabytes and the maximum was MB. The page file never grows from the initial MB allocation. The rule of thumb would have allocated a page file of almost 2 gigabytes.

But, of course, your mileage will vary. So, how do you chose a size for the page file? As Chico Marx once said to Groucho - wrong every time. That said, I would start by making the initial size the same as the amount of ram in the computer and the maximum size a bit larger. At the end of your computing day, check how big the file is in Windows XP, the file name is pagefile. If it hasn't grown, you're fine.

If it consistently grows, then make the initial size larger. There are several ways to defragment your swap file: Use PerfectDisk Use an advanced defragmenter like PerfectDisk, discussed in "A Defragmentation Crash Course" earlier in this tutorial. Just instruct it to defragment your system files, and it will schedule a defragmentation for the next time you start Windows.

Use another drive temporarily If you have more than one partition or hard disk in your system, start by moving your swap file to a different drive letter, as described in the previous section. If you'll wait to rate whether my post helped you, I will keep working with you until it's resolved. The pages appear to be providing accurate, safe information.

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