jesus, lol. yeah, i think that with 4 gigs of RAM you would want it using RAM instead of your pagefile, and keep your pagefile smaller. im no expert, but i would think that with so much RAM you would want to discourage windows from much pagefile activity and encourage it to make the most use of RAM. windows is pretty retarded - i have 2 gigs and if i set around a 3 gig pagefile sometimes ill notice that windows is only using 290 or so megs of RAM and like 1.8 gigs of pagefile. this is bad, since your RAM - especially on an athlon 64 - is running at full speed while your pagefile is restricted by your harddrive speed and even with SATA its a pretty bad bottleneck. try experimenting with it - set your pagefile smaller and see how that impacts performance. also, sometimes your pagefile will be in fragments. you can tell because when you hit 'defrag' the green area (unmovable files) will usually bee your paagefile. often through recreating your pagefile/resetting the size it will fragment really badly. what i do to eliminate this if its bad is to turn the page file off entirely (0 megs, or off), defrag the hdd, and then set the page file to your desired size. it should all be in one solid green block.