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configure windows to QUICKLY delete pagefile on shutdown? (not wipe)
so I just discovered what may be one of the dumbest design choices ever if this is true: when configuring windows to clear the pagefile on shutdown (by flipping the ClearPageFileAtShutdown value in registry to 1) windows actually overwrites the entire file (with zeroes probably)
so obviously when that file's several gigs then it takes several minutes to shutdown
anyone found a way to instead tell windows to simply delete it instead? (like users can do by right-clicking delete with the mouse or typing "del pagefile.sys" in command line)
PS. I wanna delete that damn file on shutdown not for security reasons but practicality: so that when backing up with Ghost I don't have to delete it manually (which isn't possible to do in command line outside windows anyway)
also I've read that starting windows without previous pagefile seems to slightly improve performance or something, dunno if that's true