Recommended size of swap file with 4 GB ram

Hi truckerking and welcome to Windows 7 Forums

Seeing as though I have the same CPU/RAM/OS combination as you, I figured I would show you what I have set for mine. Because Win7 does a much better job of memory management than its predessors, I recommend that you leave the setting as shown here as System managed size. If you wish to create a custom paging file, then untick Automatically manage paging file size for all drives and click on Custom size:. Using the values given below Minimum allowed: & Recommended:, fill in the appropriate boxes. For a fixed-size paging file, use Recommended: for both values. If you wish, you can instead disable the paging file by clicking No paging file although this is not recommended.

i agree with dwarf windows 7 does a good job managing the page file one way to help is to leave the page file where windows installs it as default (c drive) if you have a large drive example 500GB partition 250GB and use this for all your data needs documents, pics, vids, etc :)

Partition or Volume - Create New

i have 6 gig of ram but i still use the swap file i experimented by turning the page file off but windows changed it back so i let windows sort it if you have a decent drive with good read and write properties you will be ok :)

"quote" windows manage it by itself it sometimes change the size and after some time the system will become slower because windows keep changing the size of the swap file all the time.

windows doesnt change the swap file. once it is set it stays that size, it does all the calculations for you

go to system information to get yours and post it back:)

that looks good to me what size is the hard drive?