I actually have an xp pro P4 1.8 with 512meg and for my virtual paging I set up a hard disk all by itself (well, cdrw is on same eide line but no software installed/running on harddrive and not partitioned with another drive) and set my virtual memory to that harddrive manually setting my max to the 6g (can tell is old disk from machine bought in mid 90s!)

I have never had the crashing problems with memory that others have complained about (yes I AM knocking on wood and praying P5 didnt hear me!) by setting up my memory parameters this way (since win98se been doing this).

If you do control panel and get classic view do system - in xp view do performance then system (for both views do the following) then advanced then performance then advanced then change button for virtual memory and select drive then set manually putting in min and max as available. At least that is way I remember doing it and of course do the reboot.

If you have a prob - email me at jerri@cruzanware.com or am usually on msn messenger under that email