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# You can either increase the size of the pagefile
(still slow) or stick the USB stick in and reassignment the pagefile to it.

Look at wizardcreations.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/how-to-get-readyboost-on-xp-using-your-flash-drive-as-a-page-file/ for a guide.
(, Sat 3 Sep 2011, 9:58, archived)
# The replies indicate that method doesn't work,
Cheers anyway!
(, Sat 3 Sep 2011, 10:15, archived)
# In that case
You can try de-fragmenting the disk, rebooting, then changing the pagefile size to either something very big (check how much free space you have) or letting Windows manage the size (which is an option in the settings).

I'm saying de-fragment the disk first because Windows needs the swapfile space to be contiguous (well, at least it used to). You could try moving any big files to a USB stick while you do the calculation to get an extra bit of space.

Just remember that depending on the size of the matrix and the operations, using *any* swap will make it veeeery slow, but at least it might not break!
(, Sat 3 Sep 2011, 11:14, archived)
# Slow I don't mind
I can leave it running overnight (or maybe for a day or two). I'll have a tinker and see what happens.
Cheers!
(, Sat 3 Sep 2011, 11:15, archived)
# I dun a edit
Which you may not notice. Move as much data off your computer to a USB stick before you start, this *should* free up some more space for the de-fragmentation.

Also, you might want to download a specialist de-fragmentation tool which might be better at moving those stubborn "unmoveable" files during de-fragmentation.
(, Sat 3 Sep 2011, 11:20, archived)
# Apparently, I've still got a few hundred Gb of contiguous space.
I'm going in...
(, Sat 3 Sep 2011, 12:27, archived)
# Page File defrag
Download and run this to defrag that swap file
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426

Dump it on your desktop, run it, reboot.

RAM is cheap and can be delivered quick - www.crucical.com/uk/ (Very easy to install)

Kill off other programs that are running. Go through all the stuff down by the click, right click, and exit them. Including the anti-virus.

Remember to feed the pixies by putting cheese slices in via the DVD drive.
(, Sat 3 Sep 2011, 12:29, archived)