Win9x Swapfile ala Linux

[Pantion]

Installing another drive is far better. Making another partition only makes the hard drive flush the cache and jump to a far place of the HD.

Thanks Donkey, good thing I have Partition Magic to slice and glue partitions [img]/forum/smile.gif[/img]

[Pantion]

Since linux uses another partition and format for its swapfile, why not try it for win9x?

I plan to make a fat16 partition of about 500MB to put the swapfile, explorer and netscape cache, etc.

I would like to know for any performance gain or loss of it. If anyone else want to try it let me know how it went for ya. [img]/forum/smile.gif[/img]

[Donkey]

It should speed things up as you will decrease the amount of fragmenting going on on your system.
A better idea though might be to put a swap file on a seperate HD if you have an old drive lying around or another drive in you system. As it would be able to write to this drive independently to what is going on with the other main drive.