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If you turn swap file off, does windows make it's own?
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nightfly
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_ 		8. July 2011 @ 03:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This question pertains to windows 7 only. Please, please don't tell me about vista, xp, 2000, millenium, 98, 95 or 3.whatever.
People keep telling me how much better windows 7 is than previous iterations. But I keep running into a brick wall when discussing this on other forums, no one will give me a straight answer. Simple question, really; If you try to turn off the swap file in windows 7, does it create one anyway like previous versions of windows? And if so, where does it put it?
I don't need to know all the reasons why one might not want to turn off the swap file.
I don't need to know how important it is to let windows run itself.
I don't need to know that you consider microsoft's engineers to be much smarter than I am so I should let them go ahead and let windows make my decisions for me.
I only need to know the answer to these two questions, so please, please can someone just answer and we can be done.
Thank you.
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aldan
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_ 		9. July 2011 @ 00:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
as to question 1.no. this makes question 2 unnecessary.
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aldan
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_ 		10. July 2011 @ 10:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
are we done here?
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Jeffrey_P
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_ 		10. July 2011 @ 13:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If Win7 had a swapfile installed and can't find it during booting it will make a temporary swapfile.

Using the Control Panel> Advanced System Settings> Advanced Tab >Settings, just select the size you wish to use. Zero for if don't want a swapfile.

Even if you have tons of RAM a 16 megger is suggested because some poorly written software won't function without it.
Jeff
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nightfly
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_ 		19. July 2011 @ 15:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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If Win7 had a swapfile installed and can't find it during booting it will make a temporary swapfile.

Using the Control Panel> Advanced System Settings> Advanced Tab >Settings, just select the size you wish to use. Zero for if don't want a swapfile.

Great. But that still doesn't tell me where windows puts the friggin' thing.
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Jeffrey_P
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_ 		19. July 2011 @ 15:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You may have to show hidden files.

Start menu> control panel> Personalization> Tools> Folder options> view> click show on hidden files, folder and drives.

It's named pagefile.sys not swapfile.

I keep a 16 Meg swapfile on another drive so it doesn't inhibit read/write times on the boot drive if, when it is ever being used.

Jeff
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