[Gllug] Another dd backup ignoramus question

[Justin Perreault]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 15:38 +0100, James Roberts wrote:
> M.Blackmore wrote:
> > Finally, having probably booted up XP less than a dozen times in my life 
> > so I know nowt, where and how do I turn off or disable the swap file
> 
> Right click on My 'Puta, 'Properties', select 'Advanced' <coff> tab, 
> Performance 'Settings' button, yet more 'Advanced' button <choke>, at 
> bottom Virtual Memory, click 'Change' button, select 'No Paging File' 
> Radio button, 'OK', ignore whinges. Turn it back on after shrinking. 
> Reboot to see effect.

But only do it for your backup purposes. I have found that one needs a
lot of ram to have the system run smoothly without the paging file.

-Justin

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