In A+ Guide to Managing & Maintaining Your PC Sixth Edition, Page 59 of Chapter 2 "What an Operating System Does" You will find it says:
"The data is stored in a file on the hard drive called a SWAP file or PAGE file. The Windows 2000/XP swap file is Pagefile.sys, and the Windows 9x/Me swap file is Win386.swp."
in xp and 2000 CD it is stored in i386 folder
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The i386 folder.
i386
I386
update files are stored in windows software distribution folder. Name of the folder is downloads
The i386 folder. It should be in C:\Windows
boot partitionThe boot partition is the disk partition that contains the Windows operating system files and its support files, but not any files responsible for booting.
It is stored in the C:/windows/system32/config. The hive you want is located under its name.
In what folder are driver files stored?
C:\Program Files (x86)\ is the default folder for 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows.
Users folder
System 32 is the folder where all the essentials of Windows are stored. Deleting that would eventually corrupt your windows.
To lock a folder in Windows XP, right click on the folder in which you have stored your data and click "add to archive." Proceed to the tab called "advanced," and click on "select password." Create a password and select that box labeled "encrypt file names."
The left pane of Windows Explorer shows the drives and folders in a layout called a tree. There is a + symbol to the left of each. Clicking on it shows all the folders stored in that drive. If there is a + beside the folder, clicking on it will show the subfolders stored in that folder. The right pane shows all files and sub-folders in the folder that you are currently viewing with Explorer. For example, if you click on "My Documents" in the left pane, all the files and folders in the "My Documents" folder will display in the right pane. For more information about Windows Explorer, visit the related link for the pdf file.
The profile is stored in the tracking.db3 file in the common application data folder. Windows XP: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Rosetta Stone\tracking.db3 Windows Vista/Windows 7: %ProgramData%\Rosetta Stone\tracking.db3