Originally Posted by JohnnyRoyale

Just an FYI - I was talking to a guy who worked for Microsoft about the swap file and gaming, and he told me something interesting: If you have at least 1 Gig of RAM, you can turn off the swap file entirely on XP. His said that the OS had a propensity to push as much memory info as possible into the swap file, leaving as much RAM as possible free at all times. So, by turning off the page file entirely, you can have a system that runs much faster, since there's no paging done at all. Now, by turning off, you have to go through the advanced properties thing, and set the "no paging file" option, DON"T just delete the file...
I've been trying it with a laptop with a Gb of RAM, and it runs fine with no swap file at all. Now, I use this laptop for high performance gaming (BF:V, HL2), so squeezing out the maximum amount of performance is important. Just rememeber to keep an eye on the total/available levels in the task manager when you do this.