the problem I have with letting windows manage the page file, is that it constantly has to work to size, and resize the page file, depending on your needs. I'm sitting here trying to think of a reason this would be beneficial, and I'm drawing a blank hehe.
ok, say you have 512 mb of ram, and your page file is set between 768-1536mb. now you crank open photoshop and a few image files, and start using up some ram. windows will resize the page file higher to accomodate this temporary higher usage until you're done w/photoshop. but this resizing process will slow down your computer, especially considering that the hard drive is usually the bottleneck in today's machines with fast processors, ram etc.
if you have a decent size hard drive, it's much better to set your pagefile to be 1 size, so windows does not ever have to resize it. and you are the one who should determine the best size. if you don't typically use memory intensive programs, then 1.5 times your physical ram should be plenty. but if you know you do editing, or anything that chews up lots of ram, think about going 2x or greater.
hope that helped!!
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