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Have you found a needed improvement by having you rswap file on a different partition?
I didn't when I tried so I put it all together again and haven't had problems or lags.

It could be due to the SPEED of your drive, if the seek time isn't fast enough, it will cause the system to work harder.

I don't know how important having a separate swap is for you but I'd ditch it and repartition the drive. I know that it's nice to have Windows, Swap and Files separate for troubleshooting or reformatting your Windows or file drive but if it isn't performing to yuor expectations, I'd go with a single partition.

THIS ARE SIMPLY MY FEELINGS, NOT THE ONLY RESOLUTION. It does seem as if you're about to open a can of worms though, memturbo is fun to watch but if you have 384MB RAM, you shouldn't be too worried about it.

I put my swap on a old 1-4gb hard drive in stalled as slave. I also make my swap files 2 1/2 times the amount of RAM installed. In your case it would 384 * 2.5 = 960 MB. Make this your Min & Max size. I personally don't use any (x products any more, I find that they are too unstable for me, I would recomend that you upgrade to W2K.

Memory or swap file size and lcation have little effect on resources. To aleaviate the low resources problem you must reduce the number of programs starting up at startup. Type in msconfig at run go to startup and unselect all of the unnecessary programs. Examples would be Cd Burning programs, free internet softwares, office, corel DAD, etc.

i have all kind of pcs for security reason. ok, its kind to have four pentium 4 with win2k. i started with pentium 1mmx, have pentium 3 and athlon xp. why change a winning team(pentium1 mmx)? btw: i had endless troubles with several pentium2 which worked and then failed later. thats why i will never touch them again.
i had set up pentium 133 with two drives. swap is on the second one. i will set 160/160 min/max.ok?this will be my last pentium1 to sell.
at http://www.aumha.org (search for partitions or planning your partitions)you can check what is perfect partitioning. i have done this with my pentium 133.
a second idea(a softer method) is separating cache\temp,temporary internet files rsp. from system-partition. i have already done this on that pentium 133. to make registry-changes one needs a prepaired file which then will be called cache.reg and will have to be executed.