I was looking at my system's configuration recently and I was looking in the paging file tab, and I saw that you can choose any hard disk that windows detects. And I saw that windows detected my USB thumb drive! And it hard all the options ungrayed just like the main drive! And I was wondering if I could use my drive for a large paging file. Would this speed up my computer? Or would I just be doing something that windows thinks is possible?
2007-03-24 13:47:30 · 3 answers · asked by Chaz Zeromus 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
You should be able to. Thumb drives are great compared to harddisk.
P.S. windows vista uses a similar idea to use the thumb drive as extra ram.
2007-03-24 14:00:54 · answer #1 · answered by cronedog 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just paging it, use command paging in windows! right click my computer, select propeties, ADVANCED tab, Setting in PERFORMANCE tab! ADVANCE tab, Virtual Memory, Change and select System Managed Size! enjoy
2007-03-24 21:03:42 · answer #2 · answered by KEDAHMAJU 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess you can, however ....
Pagefile is always most efficient & error free when on the primary partition "C:"
regards,
Philip T
2007-03-24 20:51:05 · answer #3 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋