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 ...

64-bit versions of Windows and Windows Server support more physical memory (RAM) than 32-bit versions support. However, the reason to configure or increase page file size has not changed. It has ...

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 ...

I imagine this question has been asked to death but which is better? Currently I have the page file set on my secondary HDD to conserve space on the SSD. My system has 16GB of DDR3 so I was tempted to ...

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 ...