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Virtual Memory disabled ClearPageFileAtShutDown still slowing shutdown
I'm confused. My shutdown times shot up recently. MS Performance Analyzer traced the problem to large volume writing on diskat shutdown. I disabled ClearPageFileAtShutDown. Everything good. However, due to (admittedly exaggerated) securityconcerns I wanted to keep it enabled and decided to try reducing virtual memory to a minimum instead. Thought clearing a small pagefile.sys file at shutdown would be faster. Result: everything back to slow. In other words no difference. Why? I know it would be simpler just to disable the overwrite of pagefile but I really want to know why Disk I/O is showing the same thousands of operations at shutdown whether allotted virtual memory is very large or small (0MB).