Increase Performance of Single Drive System

"Journey" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any tips about how to increase the performance of a
laptop, which of course has a single hard drive. Specifically, I am
wondering if partitioning it to C: and D: and putting the swap file on
D: would increase performance.

Thanks for any tips.
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You're not really going to notice any appreciable performance by moving the
swapfile to a different partition on the same drive. If it were to be on a
separate physical disc at the beginning of the 1st partition, it can
theoretically offer a slight boost (not really noticeable these days with
faster drives, however.) If you did move the swapfile to a separate
partition on the same disc, it can help with decreasing the amount of
fragmentation on the other partition, though.

You'd realize a bigger performance boost by adding memory, depending on how
much you already have, and how much your laptop supports.

Hope this helps
--
-Russell
http://tastycomputers.com

Keep the single partition.
Add memory to the system. That will give you the most bang for the buck.
Use CCleaner, Easy Cleaner or your other favorite software to get rid of junk
files and clean up the registry.
Use PageFileDefrag to defrag the system files.
Run the regular Windows defrag.
Do all the cleanups once every 30 days, which is sort of the norm.

.... Ben Myers

On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:08:21 -0800, Journey wrote:

Does anyone have any tips about how to increase the performance of a
laptop, which of course has a single hard drive. Specifically, I am
wondering if partitioning it to C: and D: and putting the swap file on
D: would increase performance.

Thanks for any tips.

Does anyone have any tips about how to increase the performance of a
laptop, which of course has a single hard drive. Specifically, I am
wondering if partitioning it to C: and D: and putting the swap file on
D: would increase performance.

Thanks for any tips.