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the swap file is also called the page file
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What is the swap file called in windows XP?
Paging File
What is the name of the virtual memory file in Windows XP?
It is called Page File.It is created during widows xp installation & resides on the hard drive.It is measured in MB.By default,windows xp creates a page file approx. 1.5 times size of installed RAM.
A virtual memory file is called a?
Swap file
Instead of a page file such as windows what type of partition does Linux use when it does not have enough memory to hold all the data that it is processing?
It uses the swap. The swap is a dedicated partition and not a file.
What is the name of the folder on the Windows 2000xp CD where the installation files stored?
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."
The windows swap file?
A swap file is space on a hard disk used as virtual memory. It is an extension of a computer's real memory (RAM). It allows the computer's operating system to have more RAM than you actually do.
During the virtual memory process the operating system moves data into a temporary storage area on the hard drive called?
swap chip
What is another term fo a page file?
Page file in windows is identical to swap memory in unix based systems. Microsoft gives a different name to all the terms and hence the page file.
What is the file name and default path of the Windows paging file used for virtual memory?
Windows virtual memory does not reside in any one file. Virtual mmeory is actually a system that virtualizes all access to memory and provides a consistent environment that is independent of the size of RAM. Paging occurs to many different files, not just the pagefile. By default the pagefile name is "pagefile.sys" and resides in the root of the system drive. Both the name and location can be changed. 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."
When your computer uses virtual memory the operating system builds a file called the page file on the hard drive?
Yes, its called the Page File or the Swap File.
What is another term for a page file and what are they used for?
SWAP file. Sometimes it's called swap file like for Linus Sytems. You need a page file to save data when you are using your operation system. If don't have enough RAM OS doesn't have enough space in your memory to work properly. So, in such case OS uses a paging file. When you have 512 Mb or more in Windows Xp you can disable Paging file, which will accelerate your system at least a little bit.
What is the file called When your computer is using virtual memory and the operating system builds a file on the hard drive that allows processing to continue?
swap file
