How do I disable Photoshop nag about Paging file?

Walter payton's recent forum about the merits of using a page file reminded me of this nag i keep gettin in PS CS. Everytime is start it i get the message about windows not running with a paging file and this won't make ur pc run faster blah blah. is there anyway to disable that crap? i recently upgraded to 2gb memory and even before htat i had 1.5 so i never had an issue with having enough. but one time i did come close to maxing out the 1.5 while using PS.

 

awwww come on. i know SOMEBODY has to know how to do this!

 

Maybe you're gonna have to set up a small pagefile.sys (like 200 megs or so) just to shut up the nag screen. I've got 2 gigs of RAM also, have a 500meg pagefile.sys and only ever use around 100-150 megs, but I am not a heavy system user.
No hardcore gaming, no CAD, etc. It works for me. Bazza

PS: Hope someone gives you a more scientific answer, as I am interested in actual pagefile.sys size versus THEORETICAL pagefile.sys size.

A little bit of practice outweighs a lot of theory, IMHO. Baz
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yea a few yrs ago i used to actually try that as well. but windows keeps "thinkin for me" and makin the damn thing bigger than what i specified as the max!

 

As Halo suggests, set your MInimum and Maximum to the same size.
I have mine both set to 500 megs, as an example. Bazza

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@bazza ahah......well i set the min for 200 and the max for 500. so far that seems to work.
@halo also i only have cs..the original one. i never got cs2. i was lucky the last time i was in iraq to have gotten ahold of a dvd-rom that had the entire suite of macromedia (now bought out by adobe, go figure, lol) and adobe's entire suite of products for 10 bucks. how much better is cs2 than cs?

@halo. i agree, especially now that i'm working with raw images more. before i was only messin with 1-3 mp pix. but you can do a lot more with raw pics which range from 12-25 mb a peice (at least the ones coming from my nikon coolpix 8700 that is)! lol.

thanks for all the help, guys.

 

yea i figured there would'nt b that much difference. buyin it? lmao....r u serious! i'm still only amateur (even after taking 8000+ pics over 4 years) so i would NEVER spend $6-700+ on software! i'll dl it first before i go that route.

 

Having seen that warning every day for over a year, i'm pretty certain there is no way to disable that warning. some of photoshop's warning dialogue's have that little "do not show this msg again" checkbox. the absence of that box in the scratch disk warning means you either need to heed the warning or resign yourself to hitting "ok" every time it comes up. (this is silly, but i found hitting enter to close the dialogue rather than using the mouse to click ok made it seem less of a pain in the butt.)
If you use photoshop somewhat regularly tho, it might be worth your while to heed the warning. that's how i finally got the warning to go away and it made a significant difference in how fast the program ran. what i did was go to a discount electronic store and get 10g drive for like 10 bucks. best buy doesn't seem to have these tiny drives in my experience. a place that sells used equiptment would be your best bet. install it as a back-up drive. then open photoshop and go edit>preferences>plugins/scratch disks. change the first scratch disk to this new seperate drive. i changed the second scratch diskto the primary larger harddrive in case it ever needed more room. (cuz i really don't know how much room it actually uses.)

 

yea i already gave in. thanx neways though. i run the stupid lil scratch disk crap off of my 500gb maxtor external and i've noticed absolutely no change in how fast the program runs. i think that's just something adobe things is a good thing. i think they can blow it out of their collective asses.