roger...here is the idea.
there is no penalty for a pagefile that is too big..this is documented.
most users, like yourself, will infact never use more then 75% of their pagefile...this point of yours is true.
just like most corvette owners will never put their foot on the floor.
same thing.
if you have alot of ram, hopefully, one day, you will use alot of ram, and that is the purpose of having the pagefile the correct size.
their is no performance harm in being ready to use all of your ram, but their is harm in not being ready..and that is the point
as far as your ram defrag
roger, I have to ask you not to get offended again.
this is a marketing ploy, there is no such thing as defragging your ram.
this program is releasing your ram...that's what it is doing.
now, these programs typically create their own pagefile, which they call a backkup file, but it's a pagefile.
they then write the information of your longest ago accessed ram into the backup file, and eliminate that use from ram.
this does not speed you up one bit, and in many cases will slow you down.
in most cases, the ram that these programs releases is allready available for release by xp.
when you get short ion ram, xo writes the ram to pf, but keeps it in ram untill absolutely neccessary.
in this regard, the ram is released, yet if the resident information is called before the ram is calle4d, it's in ram, and available.
these ram optimizers cricumvent that strategy.
you are having slowdowns that you don't attribute to the ram optimizer.
for instance, a program that was launched a while ago.
your ram still has this information in residence, until this ram is used.
ram optimzers take that information out of residence.
so, you are trading
the appearance of more available memory, for keeping the ram in constant use.
this is what speeds your box roger...the more ram you are using, the faster these things perform, (obviously).
the addage is "free ram is wasted ram"
and that is what most people don't appreciate.
whatever ram you have available, could be doing something...there is no reason to keep it out of use
and so, while you might think you have not slowed down, in fact, the moments you have slowed down, you would not have recognized