JCschild:
first do not screw with pagefiles settings let windows manage. we used to fo this tweak but no longer needed.
here is the BIGGEST… you need to disable HIBERNATE…
1.Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
you can actually copy paste into CMD using mouse (not KB)
lastly i dont know whats wrong? you should not be using that much just for a win install… i am only using 92G and i have a crapload of stuff installed including Adobe Master collection.
well ive just tried your turn off the hibernate and it’s just increased the size of the windows files from 73gig to 81gig and now im running a 128gig ssd in the red ,now how do you turn the hiberate on , if i try it in the cmd it comes up with an error file saying disk not large enough , every thing was fine before and the page file was on a separate partition but now … im running in the red , could you tell me how to over come this please as your advise for decreasing the page file size increased the size of the os .
sorry ive jumped in on this and i should of left the drive well alone as now im running red
you help would be appreciated now
you have not turned it off correctly or something… i do this daily its one of the last “tweaks” we do and i watch the size shrink. do you have UAC off?