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[Ron61]

Mike,

Go to the My Computer Icon and right click it to get the menu. Click Properties like before for the System Restore but this time select the Advance Page tab and bring it to the top. Then select Performance and Advanced on that page. On the 2nd Advanced Page you will find a Settings Button. Click it and select Advanced and you will get a page with two or three things on it. Select Virtual Memory and Change. That will pop open the page that will tell you your Page File size. Make sure you write down the sizes they have in there if yours has a custom setting. Then click the No Page File to turn it off. You will get a warning that your computer may not operate right without a Page File, but ignore that. Then go back to the desktop and I believe you have to re-boot the computer or it may tell you to do so to make it go away. I then defrag the disk and go through the same procedures to put the Page File back in and any left over junk from removed programs and such is gone. Since the hard dives are pretty big now I just put the custom settings back in that it had when I got the computer. The Page File is just a section of disk that it uses as a memory and it will move anything you are doing to that and that way it speeds up things when the computer needs to access those files again. But as I said, when you delete programs or look at stuff it will move that into that section and that is what shows up as green unmovable files when you do the defrag. On our big switching computers we had a circuit pack that did this except when it got to a set point it would automatically kick out the thing that had not been used for the longest time. For instance this computer has two stand alone 500Gig drives and my other one has a 1 Tet drive.

Ron