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From: newbie@inmet.UUCP (Chris Newbold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 swap file note
Message-ID: <455@inmet.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 90 19:30:27 GMT
References: <25913@cc.usu.edu>
Reply-To: newbie@inmet.UUCP (Chris Newbold)
Organization: Intermetrics, Inc.  Cambridge MA.
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In article <25913@cc.usu.edu> JRD@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik) writes:
>
>	Has anyone else noticed that the large swap file created by Windows
>3.0 installation is a (large) fraction of the contiguous free space on drive
>C, but that it can be changed? I created a contiguous file on another drive,
>named it the same as the original hidden swap file and deleted the original.
>Windows continued to work. That also means one can create a swap file of
>any desired size by manual means (programming, copy with concatenation,
>subtrafuge with Norton's Utilities on an old unneeded file, etc).
>	Joe D.


Windows 3.0 can use several different types of swap files.  Permanent ones,
which must be laid out on contiguous sectors and temporary ones.  The latter
type are created when you run Windows, and take up to half of the available
disk space.  Permanent ones are created with the "swapfile" utility, and
can be any size you choose.  

For more information, try reading the chapter on enhancing Windows performance.
It is very well written, and shows you all the tricks to speed things up,
as well as describing the "swapfile" program.


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