Re: Virtual Mem Sucks.

>    I'm running Win95 with 8 megs of Ram on a 850 meg hard drive. Over the
> past few days I have noticed that I'm using 300 megs of hard drive space
> when in reality I've only got 250 megs worth of programs. So I panicked
> and my friend told me it's the virtual memory that's using 50 megs worth
> of hard drive space.
> Anyone out there knows how to fix this problem/concern?

Yes, go into the ControlPanel and change your virtual memory setting.
Windows sets up a temporary swap file.  The size is based upon the ammount of
free spance you have left.

I would suggest a Permanent swap file with about 8-10MB.  Permanent swap
files tend to run faster.

When creating the swap file windows will look for a contigious area that it
can creat the file.  Knowing that the center of your hard drive is the
fastest, that is where you should strive for windows to create it.  To better
achieve this, change your virtual memory to 0.  Restart windows so that it
gets rid of the swap file.  Then, Optimize <defragment> your HD.  This will
move the data into a contigious form on the outter edges of thie platter.
<the first 250 MB in your case>.  Then, reset your swap file to 8-10 MB
permanent swap file.

Your first 250 MB will be your already installed software.  MBs 251-259<261
for 10 MB file> will be your swap file.  Which falls pretty close to the
center making it about as effcient and fast as possible with your drive.

Clear as mud, right?

Eric
AC502