It can be a performance boost, but if you put your swap on a substandard hard drive then you are wasting your time.
-----Original Message----- From: Won Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:42 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Time to format? Marlon Moyer wrote: > I've had my laptop for around 8 months now and winxp seems to be dragging > now. I used to format my win98 box every six months or so to regain speed. > Is it time to do this with winxp. Are they any guide for slimming down the > registry and getting winxp back to that freshly formatted state? > When you re-format do you partition your drives? I usually have a partition SYSTEM, APPS, DATA, and SWAP. I read somewhere that having the SYSTEM and SWAP parition on different physical drives would enhance performance. Wondering if that was true. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:137947 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
