Posts by Revenent

I've done my fair share of interviews here, so I throw in my 2 cents... I can tell you that having a fancy Ph.D. from some almighty university isn't going to get you in the door. Being able to spew out technical information from...

It's not technically a security fix issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888137/en-us

The probability of you being able to play games at the same time as watching a movie is pretty low. While most media players are a lot less processor intensive than games, they're still not exactly a lightweight application. Also,...

The fewer number of fragments, the better. You might not be able to get it to zero, but as long as you get a relatively low percentage of fragments, you'll probably see an increased performance increase.

You should only need to run it once. Run it a couple more times if you find your page file is still fragmented.

Convert, defrag page file, defrag rest of HDD.

If you have a lot of files on your system, the conversion probably moved most of them around. Portions of it may have been fragmented. And yes, the utility I listed above is free. It's designed specifically to defrag the page...

Most likely, your paging file has been fragmented beyond all comprehension. If you can find a defragmentation program that can defragment the paging file, that will probably solve most of the your problems. Here's one (now technically...

Defrag your hard drive after the conversion.

Have you installed any Explorer add-ins? From the looks of it, DEP is killing Explorer because it is most likely doing "something bad". Since all add-ins run under the Explorer process, if they do something bad, it gets...