Simple computer question....i hope lol?

""If you have much more free space on your D drive (which is either a separate hard drive or just a partition on your single drive), you can move your virtual memory to the D drive.





In XP - right click on My Computer and choose properties. Advanced tab, performance and settings button. Advanced tab, virtual memory change button. That's where you choose which drive. ""





I was wondering of ways to increase my virtual memory....will changing my disk to disk D instead of C...fix this problem? Is it okay to do that....or will that cause some negative efffects?

Simple computer question....i hope lol?
That's actually a really good way to speed up performance. It takes some of the load off of the C: drive, assuming that C: is a physically different drive and not just a different partition.





The only reason not to do that is for system crashes. If your system crashes, the contents of the RAM are dumped onto the system drive, normally c:





For some reason moving the page file to another drive screws this process up...





here's a link to another question where the guy explains it better...





http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...
Reply:You should leave it on automatic and increase your computers ram. Virtual memory is SLOW.
Reply:Actually moving your pagefile (also known as virtual memory) to a separate Hard drive improves performance! This is what I did because I have 2 hard drives.


Make sure to create the pagefile on the front outside edge of the harddrive for fastest access times by creating a partition there.


Once you do that you can completely remove the virtual memory off of your operating system drive. This will also help your hard drives last longer.