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Good work Vanquish! And now a word on swap (the never ending story):
My experience is that systems with half a gig ram or more runs quite fine without the swapfile. But there is a good reason to have one anyway.
When programs start they ask to allocate memory they MAY use. Windows gives them addresses in the swapfile range first and later if they really needs it they get real ram. This way the real ram is as free as posible. If you have little or no swapfile windows has to reserve real ram that may never be used, and then it gets locked up for nothing.
Note that even if windows gives away addresses in the swapfile it does not create it physically. Therefore a good way is to start with a small size swap but have a lagre max size just for windows to use as virtual address space.
It is because of this that if you have it set to 200MB-800MB taskmanager may report use of 350MB though the file on disk still is just 200MB. It reports the address allocation. In this example you have saved yourself 150MB real RAM. A good thing.
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