thesnake Posted May 11, 2006 Posted May 11, 2006 hi.. i installed extra ram on my pc and when i installed windows i noticed some extra used space on my c: driver (about 700 mb). do i get more used space on my driver for installing more ram or its somthing eals? thx
gryphon Posted May 11, 2006 Posted May 11, 2006 could be your pagefile. Although I doubt it. Think it's something else. :)
Timenn Posted May 11, 2006 Posted May 11, 2006 Have you enabled hibernate? The hibernate file is the same size as your total memory size, so if you increased your memory, the hibernate file has grown as well (taking up more disk space)
thesnake Posted May 11, 2006 Author Posted May 11, 2006 i mejor my frech installed windows size first thing after i reinstall and after i disable both system restor ands hybernation.... anyway i still dont know what are those 700mb but somthing did came up i removed the extra 512mb ram stick(whitch giving me one hell of a time so far lol as u saw in my previous post) and reinstalled and for my surprise the 700mb just wasnt there!!!! and the disc size went back to normal..... (happy but confused ::) )
gryphon Posted May 11, 2006 Posted May 11, 2006 my bad. ignore my previous comment. It is your pagefile. It's always 1,5 of your install amount of RAM. So put in more memory and your page file get's bigger.
thesnake Posted May 11, 2006 Author Posted May 11, 2006 humm..by the way should i lower the pagging files now?? or leave it?
Phoenix Posted May 11, 2006 Posted May 11, 2006 About a page file, i can explain it to you in my own words, but i found this with the first google hit..so I put it here for you to read.. The Windows XP Page FilePerformance is always an issue when dealing with computers. We tend to think of major items such as processor speed, amount of installed RAM and the graphics card when talking about how fast a computer performs. It's true those components do play a large role in performance, but one item that can substantially impact overall performance that doesn't get nearly the amount of attention as the more well known components is the paging file. The paging file is very closely related to the physical RAM installed in the computer. Its purpose is to extend the amount of physical RAM and make it available to the system. Both services and installed applications can benefit from this 'extra' RAM, even though it is substantially different from the sticks that plug into the motherboard.Not all that long ago 32 to 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM was considered a huge amount for a personal computer. Today, amounts of 128MB to 256MB are common with many machines sporting 512MB or even 1GB of RAM. It might seem that with such a huge jump in installed RAM that the paging file would be unnecessary. There must be some sort of law or correlation that I don't know about, but operating systems and applications keep finding ways to suck up all that memory so the page file remains with us. There have been a number of schemes for extending the installed amounts of RAM but basically they are all paging files. When the load imposed by applications and services running on the computer nears the amount of installed RAM it calls out for more. Since there isn't any additional RAM to be found, it looks for a substitute; in this case virtual memory which is also known as the page file.We now have two types of memory; random access memory (RAM) and virtual memory, or the page file. The page file is created during the Windows XP installation and resides on the hard drive. Page files are measured in megabytes. The size of the page file is based on how much RAM is installed in the computer. By default, XP creates a page file which is 1.5 times the amount of installed RAM and places it on the hard drive where XP is installed. Other than plugging the RAM into the motherboard, there is little than can be done to alter its performance characteristics. The page file is a different story. Because it's located on a hard drive, it's subject to a number of factors that can hinder its performance.If I would be you, I would leave it..
thesnake Posted May 11, 2006 Author Posted May 11, 2006 If I would be you, I would leave it.. i like orders.... they are more logical than every thing,,, thx man
Phoenix Posted May 12, 2006 Posted May 12, 2006 Get married. Logic will be everywhere then ! :(Hehe.. logic like: "I want to shop"-Why?"Because"
thesnake Posted May 13, 2006 Author Posted May 13, 2006 i think marrige is ok but only if u have enough money and a good job then every thing can go smooth but i dont have both ..lol
Phoenix Posted May 13, 2006 Posted May 13, 2006 the more money you have the more they gonna shopor the expensiver they gonna shop..
veK Posted May 14, 2006 Posted May 14, 2006 the problem with marriage is... you can only have 1 woman here. this really sucks...
thesnake Posted May 14, 2006 Author Posted May 14, 2006 So why wate it married, eh ? :Pno i mean talking about shopping if u have enough money to give it to ure famly to shop it wont be a big ptoblem because money can live more than human dose.. get it? vek if having one wife suck the only thing that suks worse is having tow wifs cheers
gryphon Posted May 15, 2006 Posted May 15, 2006 can't I go away for one weekend without you all turning this board into a public spamm place. :P
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