creating volume?

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I have just installed adobe photoshop 7 and upon opening,
I received a message saying that the program was on the
same volume as windows pagefile, wich would affect
performance. I am working on a Toshiba laptop running
Windows XP and I am not sure what this means, although,
for a newbie, I am quite knowledgeable and capable of
working with my system. Any suggestions?
 
This is mainly related to the way Photoshop uses its own virtual memory,
called Scratch Disk. The common wisdom is to install Photoshop in its own
partition and use a third partition for the Scratch Disk. If you have more
than one partition, then go into the PS prefs and change the scratch disk to
a different partition. If not I wouldn't worry about it for now. Try it out
as it is. There is no point in repartitioning if it is not necessary. What
is vastly more important is to have sufficient RAM so that PS never has to
use the Scratch Disk. Once PS starts using virtual memory, things slow down
by an order of magnitude. If you have less than 512, you are probably going
to struggle unless you are using very small image files. Don't run any other
apps at the same time and stop all non-essential processes.
 
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