The Page file

Frank,
DeaconFrost and WHS have given you excellent advice.

Follow their advice.

This is Windows 7 and not eXPired.

Frank,

How To Size Page Files on Windows Systems -- Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online

Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory - Mark's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

I'll summarize:
for the normal standalone computer user, just leave it be.
If you don't carry about dump files generated by crashes and bsods, you can reduce.

That material is not simple reading for an intro but is very thorough.

thanks karlsnooks, good reading material!

karlsnooks said:

Frank,

How To Size Page Files on Windows Systems -- Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online

Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory - Mark's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

I'll summarize:
for the normal standalone computer user, just leave it be.
If you don't carry about dump files generated by crashes and bsods, you can reduce.

That material is not simple reading for an intro but is very thorough.

Thanks, Karl--I'm going to read that and see how much I can understand. For right now, I just set it to let Windows handle the pagefile. Microsoft probably know a little bit more about it than I do. :)

Frank,

For right now, I just set it to let Windows handle the pagefile. Microsoft probably know a little bit more about it than I do.

Wise decision.

DeaconFrost said:

pallesenw said:

I don't see it.

Hint: Think about where the page file is stored. Second hint: You can take off your tin foil hat now.

It is very possible to have encrypted data without having the entire partition with the paging file encrypted.

It is not a tin foil hat. The OP is worried about security. I think the problem is that no matter the scenario, some people can only say "leave it alone".

Oddly enough Win 7 is very good at memory management, real and virtual.
I would leave well alone unless you are critically needing the 8Gb, which on an SSD you shouldn't, there should be a limit of 80% usage of the drive for trim to work effectively.