Does W2K share Win98's swap file

[Rick25]

Was just going through my HD's when I noticed that I had a file called Win386.swp on my F drive. Now I've set W2k to use the same drive for it's pagefile, but I can't find a pagefile.sys file anywhere. The .swp file is the correct size for W2K that I had set under Performance options. Anyone else who's dual booting notice anything like this?

 

[Shudder]

Nope.

I have a win386.swp that's 150 something megs. And a pagefile.sys that's 300megs.

150 is 98 and 300 is NT5

 

[SUOrangeman]

To share the pagefile between the OSes, edit system.ini on the Win9x side as follows:

[386Enh]
PagingFile=X:\pagefile.sys (X: is the drive where pagefile.sys lies)
MinPagingFileSize=327680 (MB x 1024KB)
MaxPagingFileSize=327680 (MB x 1024KB)
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1


Chances are that you won't see the pagefile.sys unless you unhide *system* files (different than just unhiding files).

-SUO

 

[Rick25]

Bingo, it was "system" files. They were always included in Win9x so I'm wasn't used looking for extra checkboxes. Thanks for clearing that up for me.