clutch 1 Posted November 19, 2002 Disabling the pagefile does help speedwise, but Photoshop complains about not having one (at least PS6 did) and some other apps might too. Also, Windows is a little slower about releasing RAM when requested, so while you might "see" that you have extra RAM available, Windows may not agree with you and proclaim that you are out of resources. The best way to know is to use a performance counter and check to see how much swap file usage there is over about a week. Then, you can either resize it or remove it completely. This has worked fine for me with systems of 512MB RAM or more. This behavior with *needing* a pagefile seems limited to Windows and its apps more than anything else, as various Linux distros I have used (RH, Debian, etc) never even bother with it on my systems with 512MB and 1GB of RAM. Share this post Link to post
