a new generation of flash memory has come out. it is much faster, and not that much more expensive.
http://www.steves-digicams.com/pdf/sdhc.pdf when I bought one of these from bestbuy on stupid sale: Card-SDSDBR-409 SKU: 7956599 it came with a card reader. an $8 value!! it is not backward compatable with old sd. At 08:02 AM 12/26/2007, you wrote: >Get a 4GB flash drive, install it "permanently," and put the swap file on it. >Use it all for the swap file. For that portion of the swap file, set the min >and max sizes of the swap file to be the size of the whole drive (as much as >Windows will allow, which is a few megabytes less than all of it). Keep some >swap file on the installed hard drive, and set its minimum size as low as >possible. Then, early use of the swap file should default to the flash drive, >but there is swap file available if the flash drive should fail or become >accidentally removed. > >Fred Holmes > >At 07:36 AM 12/26/2007, Quentin Fisher wrote: >>As digital files get larger and more numerous, I find even simple sorting >>and labeling tasks get more sluggish. I have a Dell Dimension Pentium 4 >>running XP. I have maxxed on RAM, and installed a SATA hard dive. Would >>upgrading the video card make much of a difference, or have I gotten near >>the limits of my processor and bus? Other suggestions? > > >************************************************************************ >* ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== >* ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== >* Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name >* Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST >* Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L >* New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress >* Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >************************************************************************ >* List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ >* RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml >* Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived >************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
