Oren
Mon, 03 Apr 2017
21:53:08 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 15:57:08 -0500, "Terry Coombs"
wrote:

Oren wrote:
On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 12:00:38 -0500, "Terry Coombs"
wrote:

What y'all are not understanding is that I don't want W10 , I
wish
to stay with XP Pro . I MIGHT consider going to 64 bit W7 Pro ,
but nothing newer . I have on hand a 64 bit Vista copy , but
Vista was such a dog ... and a copy of XP Pro 64 bit is on it's
way , should arrive today .

Just a couple of comments. People can correct me but my
experience, XP still has a bunch of 16 bit code when MSFT first
moved to "NT" (New Technology) The 32 bit code still allows some
16 & 8 bit programs to run.

About XP (NT) you can do two or three things: Give it as much
RAM as you can and more drive space (larger). If you have a
separate secondary drive, set that drive for your swap file. A
single drive has to work harder swapping memory to the single
drive.

"More RAM -- More Drive". That's my story and I'm stickin' to
it.

OK , after a bit of a ****up updating the bios (wrong version
for this
processor , LAN quit working), I'm running again with the 1.8 quad
core phenom . I already have as much RAM as 32 bit XP will see ,
but setting the swap file to a different drive than the OS is
intriguing ... This box has a total of 1.5 Tb of storage in a pair
of 250's and a single 1 Tb drive (which was the other thing that
was affected by me loading the wrong BIOS) that has all my video
and music content on it .
So tell me more about how to set the swap file to a different
drive ...

Aw man. Been many years. See if this link helps.

http://www.tech-faq.com/how-to-change-the-swap-file-settings.html

If you have an empty secondary drive give the swap file everything
you can. It will be independent of the primary drive so you get a
boost in performance.


Maybe. Depends on the hd configuration to the mainboard. Are both
drives sharing the same data cable? If they're IDE based and one is
master/slave, you need to seperate them to seperate channels for full
speed, for what little it counts compared to SATA.


--
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are
too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get
by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. - J.C. Watts