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Whats de difference between paging files and swap files...
They r both use to "extend" the memory right?

What would increasing or decreasing the paging files do?

What would happen if i disabled them?

I have 256 mb RAM and using Windows XP....can it be used to make my applications
run faster??

If so then how?

Thanks

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Paging and swap have the same purpose. They are different on a few technicalities. Some swimming through google results came up with this and this.

Disabling paging would make you run out of RAM really fast (Windows hogs it). If you look at the performance tab of the task manager in XP, you should notice that Windows maintains a pagefile even if the physical RAM isn't all the way filled. This is so actively running applications can have some physical RAM to use rather than going directly to the pagefile.