How To Move Paging File To An External Hard Drive – Ep. 22
- December 24, 2009
- Posted by: Craig Chamberlin
- Category: Uncategorized
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Today’s video will walk you through shifting the virtual memory paging file to a secondary hard drive. This is a great speedup tip for those of you who are running a secondary hard drive on your computer because it will allow your operating system to reference the second hard drive instead of the primary for your virtual memory. In non-geek terms, that basically means if virtual memory is needed your computer will use the data collection from a different drive which reduces the amount of resources used on the primary drive.