Mick

You really do not want to be using the swap file. You should check
whether the swap file is being used and if it is being used
significantly then add RAM memory. Take care not to confuse Allocations
of Virtual Memory reported in Task Manager for usage.

You may find it helpful to know exactly how much of your pagefile is
being used. Use page file monitor to observe what is the peak
usage.Start it to run immediately after start-up and look at the log at
the end of the session.The log is Pagefile log.txt. If you right click
on the file in Windows Explorer and select Send to, Desktop (Create
Shortcut). The same applies to XP_PageFileMon.exe. You will need to run
it at intervals as it does not log continuously once started.

A small utility to monitor pagefile usage:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm

Graphics and camera related programmes demand significant amounts of
memory. Anything using an undo feature is the most demanding e.g. photo
editing.

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Hope  this helps.

Gerry
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