setting up disaster

By basd on Sep 24, 2009 | In off-topic

Customizing has a way of sowing the seeds of disaster.

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So, I shut off the paging file in my new Gateway LT3103u Vista. Vista is running surprisingly okay. It is probably faster as the result of no paging file and everything I have done so far has worked just fine.

BUT ... as you know, a memory intensive application will present the BSOD if there is no paging file. What will happen is that two years from now I will suddenly decided to use the computer for something completely different, something requiring a lot more memory.

By then, I won't remember that I turned off the paging file. I will be completely mystified why the computer won't work. I know this will happen, since I have done things such as turn off various services (to speed up computers) and then I've been unable to do relatively normal computer activities. At this point, calls to tech support do not help, because I have changed the default parameters in a way no tech support guy is going to realize. Especially as I don't remember I have done it too.

Oh, well. Meantime, netbook running very well with no paging file. (Some research I read said do not do this if you have less than 2 megs. ram. Gateway has 2 megs...)