mystic...basically setting the page file to a single size keeps all of it together in one spot on the disk. If you have the time, it may be worth it to disable the page file completely, reboot, defrag, set the file to whatever size you want, and reboot again. This'll more or less guarantee that the space set aside for the page file is contiguous, which'll mean less clunking around as the disk tries to find/swap the data. Putting it on another drive (i.e. on your non-os drive) reduces the work load for that drive. If you can put it on another IDE chain that's even better (i.e. primary and secondary), but we're really getting into nit-picky things about maximum performance, which with the latest hardware that's available, is pretty much negligible. lostcar: did that help at all?