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carl feredeck
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      07-20-2007
someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be better...

and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even better?


 
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      07-20-2007
carl feredeck wrote:
> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be better...
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> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even better?
>
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If you have enough RAM, you can do away with the pagefile all together.

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      07-20-2007
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> carl feredeck wrote:
>> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be better...
>>
>> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even
>> better?

>
> If you have enough RAM, you can do away with the pagefile all together.


No, you can't. That is *never* a good idea.

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      07-20-2007
No.

John

carl feredeck wrote:

> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be better...
>
> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even better?
>
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      07-20-2007
John wrote:

> carl feredeck wrote:
>
>> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be better...
>>
>> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even
>> better?
>>

>
> If you have enough RAM, you can do away with the pagefile all together.


That is a bad idea and in most cases counterproductive.

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      07-20-2007
Mike wrote:
> "John" <> wrote in message
> news:46a0d468$0$15860$...
>> carl feredeck wrote:
>>> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be
>>> better...
>>>
>>> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even
>>> better?

>>
>> If you have enough RAM, you can do away with the pagefile all together.

>
> No, you can't. That is *never* a good idea.
>
> Mike
>


Mike, I can assure you that I am doing on the machine I am using right
now and have been for a long time with no problems.

John.
 
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      07-20-2007
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:59:52 +0300, carl feredeck wrote:

> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be better...
>
> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even better?


No - because USB is slow.

 
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      07-20-2007
John John wrote:
> John wrote:
>
>> carl feredeck wrote:
>>
>>> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be
>>> better...
>>>
>>> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even
>>> better?
>>>

>>
>> If you have enough RAM, you can do away with the pagefile all together.

>
> That is a bad idea and in most cases counterproductive.
>
> John John


Explain please.

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carl feredeck
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      07-20-2007
If USB is slow why then does vista have READYBOOST?

Something fishy is going on here


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> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:59:52 +0300, carl feredeck wrote:
>
>> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be better...
>>
>> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even
>> better?

>
> No - because USB is slow.
>



 
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      07-20-2007
"John" <> wrote in message
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> Mike wrote:
> Mike, I can assure you that I am doing on the machine I am using right now
> and have been for a long time with no problems.


Then you must have a *lot* of RAM and not doing much with the computer.
You will always get better performance with paging than without. Windows
is desgined that way.

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