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I have a virtual memory question.

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de8212

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First of all I did a search but didn't really find an answer.
I followed the steps to add the ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 to 386enh.
After I rebboted and ran defrag, 386.swp is now located in my C: directory. Can I move this?
Can someone explain to me in simple terms what this actually does to add this line? the file is 256MB which is the exact size of the Min AND Max I entered. Would it change if I changed the Min/Max?
I have 256MB of physical ram, what is suggested for the Min/Max?
Thanks
de
 
I believe that in order to get the command conservativeswapfileusage = 1 to work you need to let windows handle virtual memory. By setting your minimum and maximum you override the command. Go back to virtual memory and check on for windows to handle virtual memory and see what happens.
 
The following excerpt is what I am trying to do
"In system properties disable virtual memory, restart, and remove the win386.swp file. Now defrag your hard drive. Afterwards, set the virtual mem back on w/ the min and max being equal using this formula: Physical RAM * 2... I don't recommend setting to anything over 300MBs"

It never says to select "Let Windows Manage my Virtual memory". I'll try it.

Does anyone else have any info?
de
 
I just noticed that there is a line that says
"ConservativeSwapfileUsage="
Should I have just added a 1 to that line? I actually added the entire line originally.
de
 
Well this what I did:

I added the conservativeSwapfileusage = 1 line to 386enh section.
I let Windows handle virtual memory.
I have 256mb or ram and everytime I'm using the WinME I get like 65% free memory w/ 0mb size swap file. It works for me but maybe if your going over 256mb (that would have to be alot of programs at one time) you would want to set the swap file to 256min/max. I think total memory 512mb is far enough that you shouldn't run into any problems.

 
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