S I Z E O F W I N D O W S ? ? ?

[Steve UK]

what is the size or a windows installation?

i have windows and program files only on c: drive, all my music/video/docs
are on other partitions.

i set my c: capacity to 8gb to take program files and windows and it's
nearly full!!

i have noticed that a file on c: 'pagefile' is 1.5gb in size, is this the
correct size for a pagefile???

i have a 2ghz cpu with 1gb ram. also the 'hiberfil' file (whatever that is)
is 1gb in size.

is this correct and if so how much free space do i need on c: for windows to
be stable. there are presently 407mb free on disk c:

thanks.

 

[Testy]

Disable hibernation and that will be gone. A pagefile of 512 should be more
than sufficient.

Testy

 

[Donald McDaniel]

what is the size or a windows installation?

i have windows and program files only on c: drive, all my
music/video/docs are on other partitions.

i set my c: capacity to 8gb to take program files and windows and it's
nearly full!!

i have noticed that a file on c: 'pagefile' is 1.5gb in size, is this
the correct size for a pagefile???

i have a 2ghz cpu with 1gb ram. also the 'hiberfil' file (whatever
that is) is 1gb in size.

is this correct and if so how much free space do i need on c: for
windows to be stable. there are presently 407mb free on disk c:

thanks.

1) When you have XP manage your page file, it automatically sets the size to
be 1.5 times the size of your installed memory. Keeping that in mind, a
pagefile.sys of 1.5gb is correct. Since you have so much system memory, you
can easily save a minimum of half that disk space by managing your pagefile
yourself (unless you regularly use HUGE graphics-intensive programs, in
which case you SHOULD let Windows manage your pagefile).

2) When you have Hibernation turned on in Power Options, XP saves a file
containing a current image of your installed memory, named "hiberfil.sys".
In your case, it is 1gb, since your installed memory is 1gb. Hibernation is
really only used by laptop compters, so turning off Hibernation will
automatically remove hiberfil.sys and save you 1 gb.

With that said, I advise everyone to have a system partition of at least 8
gb (whether you think you need it or not.) With the prices of large HDs
being so low nowadays, having small partitions seems senseless to me. Yes,
yes, I know all the standard arguments, but I happen to disagree with them.

Personally, I just make one large partition filling up all available space
on hd0, and keep my backups and media files on hd1.


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[Bob Dietz]

In addition to Testy's advice...

Right click you Recycle Bin and choose Properties. Do you really need
10% of your drive devoted to the Recycle Bin.

Open Internet Explorer.
Tools > Internet Options... >
Temporary Internet files [Settings...]
Set disk space to 10MB or less for broadband or 10-30MB for dial-up.

Right click My Computer and choose Properties. Click the [Settings...]
buton on the System Restore tab. Adjust if deisred.

START > Run... > Open: cleanmgr /sageset 99
I have everything checked except -
Recycle Bin
Catalog files for the Content Indexer
Compress old file

START > Run... > Open: cleanmgr /sagerun 99

Bob

 

[Steve UK]

my pagefile is set by the computer isn't it? why is it 1gb??

 

[mrtee]

Yes, the page file is set by XP.

It is set at 1 ½ times your RAM, since your RAM is 1024 MB your page file would be 1536 MB.

The hibernate file is also set by the system to be equal to your installed RAM therefore the hibernate file would be 1024 MB. As Don said, turn off hibernate.

Right click on the desktop | click properties | click screen saver | click power | click Hibernate | untick "enable hibernation". That frees 1024 MB for you.

You could also adjust your pagefile down by choosing "Custom size" on the system properties page for advanced.

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Jeff
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[Steve UK]

i understand now. thanks all.


Yes, the page file is set by XP.

It is set at 1 ½ times your RAM, since your RAM is 1024 MB your page file
would be 1536 MB.

The hibernate file is also set by the system to be equal to your installed
RAM therefore the hibernate file would be 1024 MB. As Don said, turn off
hibernate.

Right click on the desktop | click properties | click screen saver | click
power | click Hibernate | untick "enable hibernation". That frees 1024 MB
for you.

You could also adjust your pagefile down by choosing "Custom size" on the
system properties page for advanced.

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Jeff
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