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Yes, I disabled it with only the default 1Gb of RAM to see how it affected performance, though to be honest I didn’t really tax my system. The most obvious result for me was sluggishness when browsing with lots of tabs open, especially if they contained multimedia content. This was greatly improved when I upgraded to 2Gb of RAM.
You will obviously gain a bit of disk space, possibly improve battery life slightly and may experience faster performance from disabling the virtual memory. However, your NC10 may struggle on memory-hungry applications if you only have the default 1Gb installed.
ok thanks for the info, im gonna give it a go on a few games, get the fps before and after ive disabled it and same with the 2gb when i get it
I put 2gb in immediately and disabled virtual mem. I’ve never had low memory or sluggishness. My baby runs like a charm. I did also disable NTFS Last access timestamp and disabled paging executive registry tweaks. Those might also help you. Also, wipe the McAfee out and follow the optimization threads to clean it up, you’ll get better perf.
There are tons and tons of articles over the internet about this subject. It has long been discussed (not to flame you, just to point you in the right direction if you want to see what other people have done/tested). Bottom line – there are many that find it good, and many that don’t. There is no real definitive except that if you use memory intensive programs it is possible, with several programs open, to run out of memory, and therefore have a problem if you have no virtual memory. Certianly can’t hurt to give it a shot 🙂
This is the first time I have ever heard of disabling the pagefile as a good thing… are you getting any significant battery increase from doing so?
I might think theoretically you might get some battery increase, but probably not much, if any. You still need the hd for other things – in browsing there’s the cache for instance, so how much hd usage it actually reduces would be tough to measure. However, if someone wants to run some tests, I’d certainly be interested in the results 😀
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This is the first time I have ever heard of disabling the pagefile as a good thing… are you getting any significant battery increase from doing so?
[/quote1231278178]I think disabling the page file became ‘popular’ on netbooks when the eee pc came out and people started fretting about the SSD drives having a limited number of writes. I have disabled it myself as I have 2GB and can’t say i’ve noticed any difference in battery life but I like knowing that it’s off.
Not wanting to be a pain – but can anyone explain briefly how to disable the page file with the standard XP Home installed on the NC10? I dont really fancy messing it up – and im hoping that with 2GB RAM it shouldnt run out of memory
right click on my computer/properties/advanced/ performance – settings/advanced/virtual memory – change.
then click on disable paging file.
tbh ive got 1gb of ram, i disabled it and noticed no differences, im gonna run some tests before and after i install 2gb.
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right click on my computer/properties/advanced/ performance – settings/advanced/virtual memory – change.then click on disable paging file.
tbh ive got 1gb of ram, i disabled it and noticed no differences, im gonna run some tests before and after i install 2gb.
[/quote1231433672]I had to disable page filing on both the c and d drives to get it to “stick.” Otherwise, I have no opinion on this, as I am just now trying it 🙂
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right click on my computer/properties/advanced/ performance – settings/advanced/virtual memory – change.then click on disable paging file.
tbh ive got 1gb of ram, i disabled it and noticed no differences, im gonna run some tests before and after i install 2gb.
[/quote1231433672]I had to disable page filing on both the c and d drives to get it to “stick.” Otherwise, I have no opinion on this, as I am just now trying it 🙂
[/quote1231434141]Scratch that. Even after rebooting, (and showing “no paging file” clicked) my system still shows 2038 MB currently allocated. WTF?
[quote1231440300=riffraff]Scratch that. Even after rebooting, (and showing “no paging file” clicked) my system still shows 2038 MB currently allocated. WTF?
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This happened to me and, if I remember correctly, I had to actually delete the pagefile.sys file itself as well. I think it’s in the root directory and you will need to allow viewing of hidden files to see it first.
Hope this helps. 🙂
An interesting related post that sounds authoritative:
http://www.techmixer.com/pagefilesys-how-to-remove-pagefilesys-from-windows/#comment-35210
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