| 1. Buy an additional hard drive and dedicate it to your | | | | simultaneously. You should not need anything more |
| paging file. The paging file is a file on your hard disk | | | | than about 20-40GB. You can find those on E-Bay or |
| that is used when you have no more RAM available | | | | a used computer store for next to nothing. The article |
| to run applications. Windows creates a paging file on | | | | below will help you move the paging file once you |
| your hard drive that simulates RAM. This can cause | | | | have installed and formatted your additional hard drive: |
| big slow downs on your system because the same | | | | Double the RAM installed in your computer. This is, by |
| disk that your computer is accessing for files is trying | | | | far, the easiest way to drastically increase the |
| to write to the page file. When you dedicate a | | | | performance of your computer. |
| separate drive this disk access can happen | | | | |