On Feb 6, 6:46 pm, "Stephen Hartz" <SHa...@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> Isn't there a way to increase virtual memory by tricking the system into
> viewing Hard drive space as memory'? And a jump drive is certainly fast
> enough...
>
> "Stephen Hartz" <SHa...@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message
>
> news:45c8f8bd$0$24497$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>
> > My Mom has an older Dell latitude CP, who supposedly has a memory maximum
> of
> > 128. It is very slow at this processing speed. Is there a way to bypass
> > the 128 maximum? Or a way to use a jump drive etc to increase virtual
> > memory via disk mode? How would one go about doing that? Is there a
> > program or can I just use the control panel and the system panel ?
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Steve hartz
> > SHart...******.com

You can increase the size of the swap file (or paging file), but it
may not make a difference. You cannot put the swap file on a removable
drive. (you can with Vista, but your laptop isn't even remotely
capable of running Vista)