paging file
Yes xp needs a pagefile to run that is the way the nt kernal was made (xp and win2k use the same kernal nt5.0)
but u can force xp to use ram which is much faster then your hard drive. This will give your programs a faster responce time if u have over 256 meg of ram add this reg key
** if u have under 256 meg of ram remove the large system cache key ************
next we keep the kernal from being paged
begin copy here***************************************
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"DisablePagingExecutive"=dword:00000001
"LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"AlwaysUnloadDLL"=dword:00000001
end copy************************************
copy this into notepad save file as memtweak.reg
then double click on the file to add to your reg
then reboot