With my previous hard drive I put my page file (swap file) on a flash drive and it definitely made an improvement in performance. My computer shop installed the current hard drive. A few days ago I got messages about low virtual memory. I checked and found they had set it to no page file. I consulted some articles and then put a 3742 MB page file on my Lexar flash drive, B, on Saturday night. I also kept a 350 MB page file on the C drive, apparently a mistake. Today I started experiencing all sorts of weird problems : error messages from applications and applications disappearing without cause. I checked and saw that XP was only recognizing 350 MB as "Total paging file size for all drives." I rebooted and changed the C drive setting to "No paging file." The weird problems have not continued. But XP is not recognizing 3742 MB of paging file. It is only showing 2046 MB as "Total paging file size for all drives." How do I change that? Also one of my sources leads me to believe I can have a full size page file on the C drive as well as my flash drive B. Any reason not to do that? Operating System Windows XP Home Edition 32-bit SP3 CPU Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 0.13um Technology RAM 2.00 GB DDR @ 166MHz (2.5-3-3-7) Motherboard Dell Computer Corp. 0G1548 (Microprocessor) Graphics Default Monitor (1280x1024@60Hz) Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller (Dell) Storage 74.5 GB Seagate ST380011A (ATA) Free 40.53 GB 3.67 GB Lexar USB Flash Drive USB Device (USB) 119.22 GB PNY USB 2.0 FD USB Device (USB) Optical Drives SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-252S Audio Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device Anti-Virus Roboscan free
No way the flashdrive is faster than the hard disk and windows cannot use a pagefile on a removable drive, change the pagefile settings and put it back on the C:\ drive to stop the low virtual memory errors.