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the paging file or page file as many folks call it has nothing to do with

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books or personal grooming implements but rather it is a ghost file on your

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computer's hard drive you can't normally see it and you can't manually access it

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but it is constantly having data written to it temporarily then wiped when it's

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not needed anymore it acts as an overflow for your system memory or RAM

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which holds the data needed for all of your running programs and while it's

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much much slower than RAM it's better than having your system completely lock

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up when you launch one too many Chrome tabs and run out of system memory to

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access the settings for your page file open up the control panel go to system

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in security then system then Advanced system settings then the advanced tab

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then the settings button under performance then the advanced Tab and

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finally the change button under virtual memory there are lots of cool dials and

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switches in here so what do they all do well nothing until you uncheck

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automatically manage paging file size for all drives then you can add and

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remove paging files on any of your partitions set a custom minimum and

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maximum size and even turn it off entirely so let's start with the most

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hotly debated Topic in here that no paging file checkbox many users feel

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that Windows is underutilizing their RAM when it pushes a minimized program out

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of memory and into the paging file causing the system to stutter a little

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bit when you maximize it again some people have so much RAM that they could

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never expect to use it all at once so they're like yeah awesome bring it on

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more responsiveness now to be clear pressing this button will do what you

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think it does it will force Windows to keep all the running programs in your

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Lightning Fast system memory and while that may sound very tantalizing to these

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folks and while I've personally run my system with no paging file in the past

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and not observed any ill effects there are many reports from knowledgeable

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folks of strange behavior on systems without a paging file including even

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applications that flat out refuse to run even though the PC he still has plenty

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of RAM on top of that SuperFetch which was introduced with Windows Vista uses

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system memory to cach frequently used files and make your system more

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responsive in other ways well that will have less RAM to work with and be less

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effective as well so there's a trade-off there all right so you're telling me I

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shouldn't turn it off well what about an optimal size the general rule of thumb

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on the internets is one and a half times to two times the total amount of system

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RAM but I could make it huge right more memory is always better right even if

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it's just virtual right well no not necessarily if your system had so many

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running applications at one time that you needed all of your system memory and

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a paging file 10 times that size then it would probably be operating so slowly

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anyway that it wouldn't really help best to just leave this one to the system to

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figure out on its own as well all right fine then so lus what was the point of

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this stupid video you showed me cool buttons and dials then you told me not

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to touch them can I do anything to optimize this thing the answer is yes

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moving your paging file to a separate Drive entirely can help performance in

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much the same way that using a separate physical disc for a scratch disc helps

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performance the higher performance the secondary Drive the better beware though

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in addition to your main paging file Microsoft recommends retaining one

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paging file on the boot partition for system dumps in the event of a crash

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your OS will automatically make use of the one on the separate drive more

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frequently and use the one on the boot partition less frequently in order to

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get the best performance possible but that's all done in the background so

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ultimately guys there are two takeaways from all this number one is don't

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disable your paging file unless you're willing to run that risk and number two

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