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I have been playing around with it in class but only on older P3 dells.

They don't support SATA

If you read into the context of that sentence, he has been playing around with it in class, meaning that it's not serious. When he uses it the way he wants to, it will be serious, which means that it won't be on those P3's he's playing around with...

If my assumption is correct, and it is an academic exercise, then I would say he wants a variety of solutions and doesn't really care if they actually work or not. Either result is OK for a project.

It's probably for learning which one is best, as he stated, I would imagine. 0.o

The purpose of that feature is to allow you to remove and replace a corrupt page file. You cannot turn virtual memory off, it will merely create its own and use that. That is how Windows XP/2000 work, they are virtual memory systems. Basically it is a case of no VM, no Windows.

lol It's funny that you say you can't turn it off, yet there's that screen shot clearly showing the 'No Page File' choice... >.> Okay, so then how do you remove and replace a page file, if you can't turn it off? That's what I thought... Looks like you can turn it off... or maybe Windows will suddenly lock it down in the middle of your replacement process because you go over your RAM limit? No page file really does mean no page file, on the hard drive at least... >.> Whenever you disable the page file, the amount of page file space necessary for your apps to run will then be used in RAM. In other words, that amount of RAM will be specifically dedicated as a page file and can't be used for anything else.

Look at the bottom post here:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/M..._23199493.html

or check out this blog here:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000422.html

Can't you just admit that you are wrong?

For all intents and purposes, we've been talking about the page file on the hard drive, as that's what you're saying cannot be wiped. You have said repeatedly that the page file cannot be turned off. You imply that Windows will secretly allocate another part of your hard drive as a page file, since it needs it, but this is simply not true. The page file on the hard drive can be turned off. If you do not have enough RAM, the system will crash. Windows will not take it upon itself to use the hard drive.