the paging file or page file as many folks call it has nothing to do with
books or personal grooming implements but rather it is a ghost file on your
computer's hard drive you can't normally see it and you can't manually access it
but it is constantly having data written to it temporarily then wiped when it's
not needed anymore it acts as an overflow for your system memory or RAM
which holds the data needed for all of your running programs and while it's
much much slower than RAM it's better than having your system completely lock
up when you launch one too many Chrome tabs and run out of system memory to
access the settings for your page file open up the control panel go to system
in security then system then Advanced system settings then the advanced tab
then the settings button under performance then the advanced Tab and
finally the change button under virtual memory there are lots of cool dials and
switches in here so what do they all do well nothing until you uncheck
automatically manage paging file size for all drives then you can add and
remove paging files on any of your partitions set a custom minimum and
maximum size and even turn it off entirely so let's start with the most
hotly debated Topic in here that no paging file checkbox many users feel
that Windows is underutilizing their RAM when it pushes a minimized program out
of memory and into the paging file causing the system to stutter a little
bit when you maximize it again some people have so much RAM that they could
never expect to use it all at once so they're like yeah awesome bring it on
more responsiveness now to be clear pressing this button will do what you
think it does it will force Windows to keep all the running programs in your
Lightning Fast system memory and while that may sound very tantalizing to these
folks and while I've personally run my system with no paging file in the past
and not observed any ill effects there are many reports from knowledgeable
folks of strange behavior on systems without a paging file including even
applications that flat out refuse to run even though the PC he still has plenty
of RAM on top of that SuperFetch which was introduced with Windows Vista uses
system memory to cach frequently used files and make your system more
responsive in other ways well that will have less RAM to work with and be less
effective as well so there's a trade-off there all right so you're telling me I
shouldn't turn it off well what about an optimal size the general rule of thumb
on the internets is one and a half times to two times the total amount of system
RAM but I could make it huge right more memory is always better right even if
it's just virtual right well no not necessarily if your system had so many
running applications at one time that you needed all of your system memory and
a paging file 10 times that size then it would probably be operating so slowly
anyway that it wouldn't really help best to just leave this one to the system to
figure out on its own as well all right fine then so lus what was the point of
this stupid video you showed me cool buttons and dials then you told me not
to touch them can I do anything to optimize this thing the answer is yes
moving your paging file to a separate Drive entirely can help performance in
much the same way that using a separate physical disc for a scratch disc helps
performance the higher performance the secondary Drive the better beware though
in addition to your main paging file Microsoft recommends retaining one
paging file on the boot partition for system dumps in the event of a crash
your OS will automatically make use of the one on the separate drive more
frequently and use the one on the boot partition less frequently in order to
get the best performance possible but that's all done in the background so
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