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I am an idiot: How do you turn off virtual memory?

Turning off virtual memory, now matter how much RAM you have, is a bad idea even in Windows 2000 & XP or perhaps especially so. Both of the operating systems NEED the pagefile availability.
 
Assuming you're running WinXP or Win2K:

1) Right click on My Computer, then click Properties
2) Click the Advanced tab, then the Settings button in the Performance box
3) Click the Advanced tab in the next window, then the Change button in the Virtual Memory box

Make sure you know what you're doing in there, cuz you could hose things pretty badly if you don't.

Hope that helps.
 
Originally posted by: Azzy64
its not worth it unless perhaps you have 4gb + ram, some programs may not work then even.
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QFT. Just to see how it would run I turned off virtual memory in Windows 2000 on my old machine that had 512 megs of RAM. Ran slow as hell and took a good couple of minutes just to turn it back on.
 
Originally posted by: nsafreak
Originally posted by: Azzy64
its not worth it unless perhaps you have 4gb + ram, some programs may not work then even.
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QFT. Just to see how it would run I turned off virtual memory in Windows 2000 on my old machine that had 512 megs of RAM. Ran slow as hell and took a good couple of minutes just to turn it back on.
Click to expand...

Wow. I didn't realize it'd be that bad.
 
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