meterman opened this issue on Jan 03, 2007 · 9 posts
Victoria_Lee posted Wed, 03 January 2007 at 11:09 AM
Quote - Unless I'm mistaken that was the message it gives when the hard drive needs defragging as there's not enough large areas of free space left for it to work in. Feel free to laugh at me if I'm wrong ;)
You're not wrong, Lucifer. This happens when the hard-drive starts getting full and needs a defrag. Since I use external runtimes with plenty of room on the hard drive, I don't get this message any longer. I used to get it all the time in P4.
If you're using XP you can change the size of your paging file using the Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance tab. Click on the See Basic Information about your Computer and then on the Advanced Tab. Under Performance, you'll see a Settins button. Click on that and then on the Settings button on the Performance Tab. Click on the Advanced tab again. You'll see three areas. The first two should be set to Programs to allow system memory to be optimized for the programs you use. The third one, Virtual Memory, is where you'll change the amount of disk space allocated for the paging file. I have mine set at 4 Gigs on all of my drives. Click on the Change button and it will bring up a list of all your drives (physical and virtual) and give you options for changing the paging file size for all drives. If you're not comfortable allocating a lot of disk space, just set the paging file on your C drive to the recommended amount and then set the rest of them to System Managed. This will give you the same paging file allocation on all drives.
Hugz from Phoenix, USA
Victoria
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