tons of responses to this question on the forums here

Yes, you still need the pagefile. Search the forums.

It depends on the applications used, but in many cases you can get by without using one (hence having the ability to disable it).

I jsut limit it to half my system ram.
 
 
You might want to disable uneeded serivces as well

Quote:You might want to disable uneeded serivces as well
Yes, and here's a great guide to what can be disabled.

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yes
 
 
look on this forum (search), there are MANY MANY MANY educated answers to this - it all revolves around WHAT u do with your computer really.

IMHO 512MB isn't a huge amount with Windows XP.

I'm using 768 meg in WinXP with no page file and haven't had problem one.
 
Now I've read if your doing some heavy stuff like video editing ...etc
you might need one.

i have to have a pf to run photoshop

You only have 512MB of RAM, so no you SHOULD NOT disable the paging file. Think about this. Given a scenario where you have many things open at once, 512MB of RAM can be filled pretty quickly, with things such as Photoshop, Office, or even games and little old apps themselves can eat your memory and not give it back. I also have 512MB of RAM on BOTH of my machines and I always use a paging file of 512MB statically set, it seems to work the best for me. Note: Anytime I use diskeeper to defragment the paging file it never needs it...probably because 512MB of RAM is enough for most things, but then again....you never know. Better safe than sorry, having a paging file won't hurt you that bad.
 
-hydro

i have one gig, but still have a small 500meg page file just in case.
 
BTW hydro that is the most unnecessarily long sig ever.