Comments on: Move and Optimize Windows Vista’s Paging File

By: Brent Trahan

Brent Trahan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:19:38 +0000

No.

By: Gogo

Gogo — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:22:54 +0000

I do not have a second hard drive, i just want to move the page file grom the vista partition to my second partition to allow shrinking of C then move it back to drive C. Is that ok?

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:40:07 +0000

The fact that the hard drive may be slower than other parts of the computer does not mean you should upgrade it. Very misleading statement, if you are being serious. A computer with 1GB and an old slow hard drive might be much faster than a computer with 512MB and an extremely fast new hard drive, just because it isn’t even using the hard drive as much. It really depends on the circumstance. Maybe you were just joking though.

By: JGerm30

JGerm30 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:55:02 +0000

I’ve read that SS drives read real fast, but they don’t write any faster than a good HD. Also, I thought that each location on SS drives has a limited number of writes. I am installing Vista on an SS drive and putting the page file on an HD. Will let y’all know how it turns out.

By: cisco

cisco — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:51:34 +0000

It is widely known that Hard drives are the slowest part of a computer because it has moving parts,
Processors, memory and video cards dont have muving parts that need to move to perform.

By: cisco

cisco — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:49:22 +0000

The slowest part of a computer is the hard Drive so if you want a faster computer just get a faster Hard drive.
then ofcourse a good video card and processor and memory.

By: Kreationz

Kreationz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:12:31 +0000

You can put it on a separate partion on the same drive. But it should be as follows for performance.
Partion 1 5Gb: PageFile only this ensures it is place at the outside of the platter and is never fragmented (the main reason for taking away windows management).(Windows managed size it won’t go above 4Gb in Vista, but windows doesn’t like over 80% of a drive used hence 5Gb.)
Partion 2: Os and Programs (and everything else if you want. Defrag immediately after installing the os and moving the page file.)
Partion 3: Storage (Optional for organization and easy OS reinstalls, but this will be the slowest partion)

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:41:12 +0000

I have the same problem as Tony, I cannot shrink Vista’s partition below 214GB because of the location of unmoveable system files, most likely the page file. For years I have heard that the page file should be placed where the disk spins the fastest. How do you move the page file to a spcific area of the drive without dropping it into a separate partition?

In responce to Fred,
he gave sound advice, but for those who need it, PageDefrag can defrag paging files and Registry hives. It is one of Mark’s Sysinternals tools, here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545027.aspx

By: Tizbot

Tizbot — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:48:00 +0000

Hi there. I am running Vista Home Premium 64 bit on a Q6600 with 8gigs of ram and no paging file. I have been running this way for about two months now. I have not quantified it through any benchmarking, but things seemed a bit snappier after I removed my paging file. I did have it on the same drive as my operating system though. I have not had any problems with my system since eliminating my paging file. I use my computer mostly for gaming and home entertainment (converting video formats, burning DVDs etc.) and some photo editing. Ram is so cheap these days that getting an extra 4gigs and foregoing the paging file makes great sense.

By: Brent Trahan

Brent Trahan — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:16:14 +0000

Go to this guide. When you get to step 6 click Startup Repair instead of Command Prompt.