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Does it make sense to disable the windows swap file?
f0dder:
justice: we already had a DC thread about that "XP Myths" page... basically, the guy only almost knows what he's talking about.
Virtual memory, as in using a paging file, is not always in use. On XP and later, you can disable the pagefile (but not on win2k and previous). However, it's obvious why you can get a bit confused about matters, since you cannot (when running windows) turn off the x86 protect-mode feature called "paging". Which is related to (and used by) disk paging, but does not imply it.
justice:
ah ok maybe someone needs to write an Xp Myths Myths page then.
f0dder:
ah ok maybe someone needs to write an Xp Myths Myths page then.
-justice (July 07, 2008, 09:40 AM)
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Basically did that in that thread ;), and it ended up very heated... probably the only thread I've seen on DC that became uncomfortable.
40hz:
ah ok maybe someone needs to write an Xp Myths Myths page then.
-justice (July 07, 2008, 09:40 AM)
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Basically did that in that thread ;), and it ended up very heated... probably the only thread I've seen on DC that became uncomfortable.
-f0dder (July 07, 2008, 09:56 AM)
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An XP Myth thread ended up getting very heated? :lol: Boy does that ever prove we are a bunch of techno-wankers here at DC.
Sure does feel good to finally have a home! :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
tomos:
just btw:
I have a (very) old version of photoshop (5.5)
wont run unless I have a paging file & I do use it fairly regularly so I have a paging file again :)
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