The paging file, also referred to as “Page File” and “Virtual Memory,” is essential for the system to manage memory efficiently. It removes infrequently accessed modified data from physical memory, ...

Windows creates a Pagefile.sys file in "C" drive's root directory, and it is used to swap data between the hard drive and the faster random access memory, or RAM. By default, this file can be up to ...

There's another thread here that's been of some help, and if I wasn't such a dumbass I could link it here. The problem is that, after using Partition magic 7 to increase the size of the partition that ...

I have an NTFS partition dedicated to my paging file, and this has worked perfectly for months and months. Suddenly, Windows XP is putting my paging file on C: and sizing it to 768MB (leaving only ...

As a tech writer, I regularly cringe at all the bad tweaking advice out there, and disabling the system pagefile is often a source of contention among geeks. Let's examine some of the pagefile myths ...

How to delete the Windows 10 paging file on every shutdown Your email has been sent Survey after survey tells us that IT professionals and decision-making executives all over the world who work in ...

Virtual Memory or Page File is a type of memory that allows Windows to use part of the storage space a RAM, to improve the overall performance or when there is a need for extra memory. While Windows ...

How to delete the Windows 11 page file with every shutdown Your email has been sent Computer and data security should always be a priority. A simple tweak of the Windows 11 Registry file can eliminate ...