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Quote Originally Posted by 'Zakalwe',index.php?page=Thread&postID=165139#post 165139
Whilst you're in the performance options click the Advanced tab and under Virtual Memory click change. Click "no paging file" > set then reboot. Once it has rebooted go back into this option and set it manually. This puts the paging file at the start of the disk which makes accessing it faster. Make the initial and maximum sizes the same. If you have more than 4Gb PHYSICAL memory set it to 512Mb. DO NOT SET IT TO 0, WINDOWS NEEDS A VALUE HERE!!
Windows does not require a paging file. I have mine turned off entirely on my gaming PC, I do NOT want any use of virtual memory. I have 8gb on a 5-box machine, BTW.
Believe it or not you will actually take a performance hit having no page file at all. Google for it ,but you don't really need a large one, just 512MB will be fine. Not having one can cause the OS to take extra time doing a few operations and will actually slow the system down slightly. If you have a lot of memory and a small page file it will only get used to speed up a couple operations it is needed for.

So, in short, set a 512MB page file at least.