No more page file
Posted October 17th, 2005 by Matt Berther
A great tip from Peter Provost.
My laptop (Dell Latitude D800) has 2gb of RAM on it, and I too turned the page file off on it after reading this tip.
Ive come to the same conclusion as Peter. Things seem to my quite a bit snappier and also a lot quieter since the fans arent running that much.
I dont typically run on batteries, so I cant speak to Peter’s statement that he seems to be getting 50% more life out of the battery.
All told though, for me this is working well… If you have enough RAM, you may want to give it a shot as well.
Yeah, my comps have 2gig for some years now, and I always had swapping disabled.
I once had one game I think that didn’t run with disabled swapping, otherwise I never had any problems.
Even Windows Vista Beta 1 does run nice without swapping on my notebook. I can’t say if it does change anything about battery life or something, it had not been enabled long enough :)