WinXP without a pagefile?

[Evgeny]

Hi,

I've heard that it is possible to run Windows XP without a pagefile (unlike any previous version of Windows), providing you have enough physical RAM, of course. I was wondering if anyone tried this out. How much RAM is "enough"? 256? 512? 1024? No matter how much it is, I think it's about time Microsoft gave users that option - it's annoying to see the system swapping memory to disk when you have so much of it!

Evgeny

 

[sentania]

<< Hi,

I've heard that it is possible to run Windows XP without a pagefile (unlike any previous version of Windows), providing you have enough physical RAM, of course. I was wondering if anyone tried this out. How much RAM is &quot;enough&quot;? 256? 512? 1024? No matter how much it is, I think it's about time Microsoft gave users that option - it's annoying to see the system swapping memory to disk when you have so much of it!

Evgeny >>


I've been able to do it since Win95....
for XP I'd say you'd need 512. But it depends on your applications... In theroy I could do it with 128 (never had mem usage over 115...) but I don't know, I do it and I have 386 no problems

 

[Psychoholic]

Be aware, however, that some applications will check to make sure there is a page file even though you may have enough RAM that you don't need it.