R
RJK
A little while ago I defragged my drive d: where XP Pro lives.
It's swapfile lives on a different drive, as does tmp temp and IE6's TIF
directory, and OE6's message store directory.
Just out of interest I rebooted and ran defrag and it did it all over again,
instead of just whistling through and saying "done," like would have
happened in W98. It seems that XP's defragger.exe is always unhappy with
what is just did !
Also, my system managed swapfile on g: is about 786 mb's in size, I could
have sworn that a week or so ago I set a 2-60mb swapfile on d: ,"...for
emergencies..." that JE mentions on his site, because I felt like fiddling
with something.
While I was having a look around, tonight, the d:\pagefile.sys was gone. So
I set it again, looked in the root directory of d: and there was
pagefile.sys ....2048kb in size. I rebooted, and checked - again it's
gone. So, is XP Pro deleting the 2-60mb swapfile in d: because it doesn't
need it, or is something wrong?
Also there's a 523,812 byte sized hiberfil.sys in the root dir. of d: that
I'm sure wasn't there before. Is hiberfil.sys supposed to be there? (The
file icon for it, in Windows explorer is very faint and the hidden flag
won't clear, so the system flag must be set well.)
regards, Richard
It's swapfile lives on a different drive, as does tmp temp and IE6's TIF
directory, and OE6's message store directory.
Just out of interest I rebooted and ran defrag and it did it all over again,
instead of just whistling through and saying "done," like would have
happened in W98. It seems that XP's defragger.exe is always unhappy with
what is just did !
Also, my system managed swapfile on g: is about 786 mb's in size, I could
have sworn that a week or so ago I set a 2-60mb swapfile on d: ,"...for
emergencies..." that JE mentions on his site, because I felt like fiddling
with something.
While I was having a look around, tonight, the d:\pagefile.sys was gone. So
I set it again, looked in the root directory of d: and there was
pagefile.sys ....2048kb in size. I rebooted, and checked - again it's
gone. So, is XP Pro deleting the 2-60mb swapfile in d: because it doesn't
need it, or is something wrong?
Also there's a 523,812 byte sized hiberfil.sys in the root dir. of d: that
I'm sure wasn't there before. Is hiberfil.sys supposed to be there? (The
file icon for it, in Windows explorer is very faint and the hidden flag
won't clear, so the system flag must be set well.)
regards, Richard