System Volume Information is how Windows knows what kind and size of drives to report to you in Windows explorer.

Page files used to be called swap files. The term pages refers to how memory is allocated, in pages. Reboot and they will change size. They are files that show how much of your hard drive is being used as virtual RAM. It is a good idea, especially with Windows 7 or 8 that allows you to use all the RAM, to have as much RAM as your wallet allows. That will allow everything to load into RAM and avoid the need for swap (page) files. A lesser amount of RAM creates the need for data to move in both directions across the data bus and it slows the computer down some. It's simple physics, but when you fill your physical RAM the OS turns to spare hard drive space to create virtual RAM. So data is running toward the hard drive, the hard drive has to spin to wrote that data, and then your system is limited by the rotation speed of the drive.

Bottom line is to buy as much RAM as your system will handle. XP will only address 3.7 gigs of RAM no matter how much you have in the box, but 7 or 8 will use whatever you give it. One of the HUGE improvements in 7.

Last edited by eddie1261; 01/05/15 02:31 PM.