>>It's a tad on the large size. Take a run out to www.ntfaq.com and read up on swap file allocation and performance - there's a lot there.
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>Okay, shall do. All this stuff ran fine in 9x, now I feel like I'm in Kindergarten with NTWS...I suspect doubling the RAM would help a lot, though, the NT machine really seems to be struggling with 64.
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For me, small for NT = 128MB of RAM. This was easier to say when the price of RAM was declining rapidly.

>>Yes, it gives preference to the forground task as far as the frequency and duration of the time slices it's given. You've selected the option to make your main WinApp get preference.
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>So, Max is good if the vfp app is all that's running - I'll leave it be for now. Do you always keep it Max for all activities?

For NTWs yes; depending on what I'm running on the file server, ni (ie if I have SQL Server, Proxy Server and IIS4 up, then giving priority to network apps makes sense; if I'm using it to serve up files, then giving preference to file services makes sense.)