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What is a WIN386.swp file on my HDD?

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fourtwenty

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this file seems to have mysteriously appeared on my C: drive and I want to know if I can get rid of it. It is 511MB and is wasting a lot of space. Any idea what it is and where it came from?
 
In the control panel under system, you can adjust the size of this so it's always teh same. That way it will never get really big like over a gig. They normally say set it for 3 times your RAM unless you have over 512megs. Then just make it a couple hundred megs at the most.
 
I was able to the file size to 0 by editing the system.ini file and adding under [386Enh] ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 . Now there will be no swap file unless you run out of system memory . The only exception to this appears to be when I am doing FTP.
 
You definatly dont want to get rid of it, even with excessive amounts of RAM, some programs use the swapfile anyway. If you're not sure about it, just dont mess with it. But if you want to save some space, lower the maximum amount
 
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