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| Thread ID: 113107 | 2010-10-05 09:33:00 | How to use USB drive for page file etc? | mzee (3324) | Press F1 |
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| 1141951 | 2010-10-05 09:33:00 | I have an Asus Eee701 notebook with a 4gb drive. I would like to put the temp internet files, my documents & possibly the page file on a Thumb USB drive, or SD card. How do I persuade Windows to accept it? Windows refuses to allow its files to be on a temp drive, understandable, but annoying! Was using XP, now have an edited version of W7 which leaves very little space on the HD, but works very well. |
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| 1141952 | 2010-10-05 09:47:00 | edited version of W7?? | GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1141953 | 2010-10-05 10:22:00 | Maybe a internet cache viewer/manager or FF cache viewer addon may help. Some can extract/copy to different formats. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1141954 | 2010-10-06 05:29:00 | While I can understand your dilemma, I think you'll find a USB drive to be too sluggish for something as 'core' as the pagefile. The idea behind most of these tempory files is to speed things up by having them readily accessible. Placing them onto sluggish media kinda defeats the purpose. A bigger laptop drive may be more economical than truely fast USB drives. |
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| 1141955 | 2010-10-06 06:45:00 | Personally, on the Eee 701, I'd turn off the paging file altogether. It causes too many read/write operations on the SSD (which has limited read/write cycles) and won't be any better on an SD card. (I upgraded my Eee 701 to 2GB of RAM (from 512MB) and turned off the paging file in XP.) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
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