alegator,

That is your virtual memory and unless you have a tremendous amount of RAM installed it should not be that large (in fact, with a huge amount of RAM it may not even be necessary). You can adjust its size by going to Start|Control Panel|System|Advanced tab|Performance area|Advanced tab|Virtual Memory. Click the Custom Size radio button and set the Initial size to 1.5X your RAM and Maximum size to 3X your RAM.

I went to that tab and the current settings are "Custom Size" with initial size of 2046MB and Maximum Size of 4092MB (I have 2Gb of RAM). You are suggesting setting these values to 3Gb and 6Gb respectively? Won't that make the pagefile.sys even larger?

I noticed that there are two other settings: "System managed size" and "No paging file". What about those?

Thanks.

alegator,

You missed my parenthetical statement: "In fact, with a huge amount of RAM it may not even be necessary." You have a huge amount of RAM. For guidelines in sizing the page file see this.

Denny, thanks for that great link. Regards.