When should I really defrag 589
Another alternative is to automatically delete the swapfile at shutdown, then you don't have to worry about it fragmenting over time. Takes a few extra seconds to shutdown, and a few extra seconds to rebuild it a boot, but worth it (and good security too).
It's in the registry at hklm-system-current control set-control-session manager-memory management-ClearPageFileAtShutdown=1
Personally, I've also always put the swapfile on a drive of it's own, on systems where I've had room for a second drive. All the 'experts' have told me it's bad for Windows to not have the swapfile on c:, but have never given me a coherent explanation why. Yes, I know it means you can't do a memory dump on critical error, but so what ? I've never needed to do a core dump on a windows system, and even if I did, I wouldn't know what to do with it anyway.
I've **NEVER** heard of anyone saying, as a blanket statement, that it's a "bad thing" to have the swap file anywhere...
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