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XP page file shows more in DXdiag then what I have allocated.

Ages120

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Well I have a Hitachi Sata 80GB drive I boot from and I have set it to have no pagefile. I do however have a page file set for 1024mb on my Western Digital 3200ks 300GB 16mb cache drive. In DXdiag it shows I have a page file size of 1.6gb which is bigger then I have it set for. I checked and page file and it is the correct size on the right drive. I don't know where it's getting the extra. Made sure there was no page file on my boot drive.

I have 1gb of ram, and even running large programs that take up memory the page file never gets bigger then 400-500mb. The size dxdaig shows is closer to what xp recommended of a page file the size of 1533mb. Don't know why it chose that size.