Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> You would think, even with the slight overhead, trying to keep this 
>> thing in one chunk, as much as possible, would have been useful... Sigh!
> 
> What makes you think they don't?   If you fill up your disk, you're 
> going to get fragmentation.  Recreate your pagefile, and tell it to use 
> a fixed size, and you're done.
> 
Uh. Doing that requires shutting up off, then rebooting, then defraging 
the drive, then turning it on again.. Well, lets just say that, at least 
one person trying this had it render the OS unbootable. I would rather 
let the damn thing just handle it itself, which should include imho, 
occationally using some idle time to restructure the file, so its 
contiguous (like duh!). Near as I can tell, it isn't doing that at all 
as part of normal operations.

Main reason I started into my own cleanup was that I was running Halo 2, 
with the XP patching, Firefox open (I leave it that way) and 1-2 other 
things, folding @home in the background, and the virus scan came up. It 
ran out of virtual memory and started going *boom* on me. lol

Got to be about the one and only reason I am looking at getting 7, so it 
doesn't have the memory limits XP did. Oh, that and the fact that XP's 
boot.sys got mangled at some point (who knows by what), and I am not 
sure I know how to reconstruct it, so I could add the dumb flag needed 
to make it use more memory... It amazes me some times how much can break 
on the OS and still be usable, kind of like owning a car, but where the 
tail pipe hasn't fallen off yet, or an engine mount snapped. lol I hear, 
kind of like with Windows, some people never had the cars, which got 
recalled for their tendency to burst into flames, ever actually burst 
into flames too... ;)

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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