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In a message dated 12/26/2005 2:19:16 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
osan at netlabs.net writes:

If you  
have a very large RAM, you can do away with a paging file.  The only  
drawback there is that you cannot exceed the memory capacity, or the  
system will choke due to no place to page.  But if you don't get  
careless, this should be no problem.


Was true years ago, these days, what with large graphic and video files and  
the way XP deals with things it's not a good idea to turn your page file off,  
especially if you do any kind of audio, video or graphic file editing as the  
memory requirements for some programs can bloom up to several times the size 
of  the file you're working with.
 
More RAM OTOH is always better.