Should I Turn My Page file on my computer off?

No way! If you had 12GB of RAM, maybe, but even then it can be risky. Set the page file to "recommended" or whatever it says.

The Elder Geek has an excellent series of articles on the paging file:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/paging_file.htm

At the end of each article are links to the other articles; work through them in order and you'll be able to determine the best option for you. It's a bit difficult for others to advise you because they don't know your usage and needs. However, that series of articles will explain what and why and show you how to get the information you need to make an informed decision.

If you aren't clear on what he's saying about partitions and disks in "Locating the paging file", it simply means if you have more than one hard drive in your computer, Windows can go on one and the paging file on the other. BUT if you have a hard drive that is "partitioned" don't put the paging file on more than one partition per hard drive. Partitioning is making a drive look and act like two (or more) drives on your computer. You may know for sure you only have one hard drive in your computer but when you turn on the computer, supposedly you have hard drive C: and hard drive D: - they are two partitions on the same disk and you would only use one of them for the paging file. If you had another actual hard drive, you could put a second paging file on that.

No. Best to allow your Operating System (OS) to adhere to it's creators 'best settings'. This function allows your OS and computer to store memory overflow on to your hard disk. This can be VERY useful when using lots of programs that need plenty of memory at any one given time.

In laymans terms, this is equivalent to you taking notes on a piece of paper - the stuff you cannot take in to your brain when you are given it to remember. For example, a long telephone number, or a long postal address of someone you need to contact at a later date. You write this information down for later use, when it is needed.

The OS running on your computer should only start to use SWAP when your computer's memory becomes full.

The programmers know best, that is why they created and ENABLED this function by default to exist.

What is SWAP?

To replace pages or segments of data in memory. Swapping is a useful technique that enables a computer to execute programs and manipulate data files larger than main memory. The operating system copies as much data as possible into main memory, and leaves the rest on the disk. When the operating system needs data from the disk, it exchanges a portion of data (called a page or segment ) in main memory with a portion of data on the disk.

DOS (short for Micro Soft Disk Operating System) does not perform swapping, but most other operating systems, including OS/2 (OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively.), Windows, and UNIX, do.

Swapping is often called paging or Virtual Memory.

Trust me. Leave it on.

Enjoy the amazing creation!

Your RAM sounds sufficient to not have PF running as well. Turn it off if you wish - if you need it just turn it back on :D