There shouldn’t be any problem re-allocating your pagefile. But nothing ever seems to be 100% safe with computers. Best maintenance you can do are backups. Especially using a product that not just file/folder backup but images the hard drive (so you just restore a hard drive image if you want to.. not just recover files/folders). You can even get
Acronis True Image (I use and recommend) for 15day trial and $10 off for $40.
A good temp/junk file cleaner that does it all in one
CCleaner. Look at the Windows and Application check boxes when you run it as there are some things you may not want it to delete (e.g. all your Cookies)
For deleting old files. Good tools to try and use 'em to find the BIG files on your disk are
JDiskReport and use
ExplorerXP. With ExplorerXP
- is a file explorer (like Windows Explorer) but dynamically displays folder sizes (not just file sizes)
- you may have to wait a few seconds for sizes to appear as the tool starts first and then it starts calculating sizes
- You can go to folders and click the Size column to sort by size. Makes it easy to "drill down" and see where the big files are (and if you need em)
As to page file settings.
- I’d say you should have a minimum of 1500MB. A maximum of 2000MB is probably the max you’d ever need.
So for virtual memory set min = max = 2000 and reboot (Since you have plenty of extra disk space give 2GB upfront to the pagefile is no big deal.
Then shutdown and run PageDefrag
as to whoever built them.... maybe they used default settings or i don't know. The web site CCT offered in the earlier post is an excellent tutorial/guide about virtual memory you should read for yourself. and i wouldn't know any reason (given your "lotsa space" hard drive) to start small unless they just left it at default values
