title: VMWare Player - swapping to disk more if more memory allocated
body: <p>Windows XP as base OS.  Laptop has 4GB RAM and 2*2.2GHz cores.  About 3 year old laptop</p>
  
  <p>Am using Windows7 in VMWare Player.  If I allocate more than 1GB of RAM to the Win7 machine in the VMWare player settings it goes so slow, and is continually swapping to disk. </p>
  
  <p>I've turned off all Win7 processor intensive stuff.</p>
  
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  <p>The base OS only reports using aboiut 144MB of RAM to the player.  Very weird.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using 2 virtual disks:  20GB SCSI for c:\ and 25GB SCSI for data f:\</p>
  
  <p><strong>Problem</strong>:  How to tweak Win7 VMware (ie VS2010, Sql2008R2) well on an older laptop.  Or use something else?</p>