Comments on: Configure virtual memory or page file size(pagefile.sys) in windows vista/xp to improve performance

By: Larry Miller

Larry Miller — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:38:04 +0000

This article makes the common mistake of confusing virtual memory and the pagefile. It is very unfortunate that a great deal of Microsoft documentation makes the same mistake. The pagefile is a component of virtual memory, nothing more. You can disable the pagefile but this will not disable virtual memory. Both the Windows system and the applications that is support rely on virtual memory and there is no way that it can be disabled. The situation is very diferent for the MAC with versions prior to OS X. These systems has a very simplistic form of virtal memory which could be disabled.

Confusing Virtual memory with the pagefile will make it almost impossible to have a real understanding of either.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:15:50 +0000

It seem to me that since the vista sp1 was installed it takes forever to delete a song from by library or any other dam file, i click delete and that box says time left to delete and stays there up to 2 minutes, its driving me nuts……I’m changing my virtual memory and see if it helps.

By: Jawwad

Jawwad — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:06:29 +0000

I am also wondering that if manually setting a virtual memory size in windows will do any good? Jawwad's last blog post..Some Notable Stats Related to My Scrapbook (Firefox) Usage

By: Rakshit

Rakshit — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:55:37 +0000

yeah, it helps to some extent. I have done the same to my home desktop. Rakshit's last blog post..Tuesday Trump #4: My Latest College Activity

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:12:02 +0000

I have done this same thing in my office PC (XP) which has now become slow due to lots of programs running, mainly the office 2007. Nirmal's last blog post..Get Aero Effect (3D Flip) in Windows XP with WinFlip