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    Dell Dimension 8250, sluggish

    It's a 60 GB hard drive, one NTFS partition. I have Diskeeper defragging every night at 2 AM. How large a swap file do you recommend? I'm at 768 MB now. Startup is fast, so I'm not too worried about System Restore. It's at 5% of my drive, or around 3 gig. I'll try your recommendation on the...
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    Dell Dimension 8250, sluggish

    Howdy folks. I've had this Dell Dimension 8250 (P4 3.0, 512 RDRAM) for a few months now, and I've been plagued by a very strange issue: sluggish performance. Notably, when I fire up a game of Battlefield 1942 or similar titles, my computer runs like crud after I've closed the game down. XP...

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