While cleaning out my HD today i found this file taking up 800MB of space. I have no clue as to what this is or what it does on the comp. Any insight would be most appreciated. thanks
help with pagefile.sys
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Kass
, May 17 2005 11:59 AM
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#1
Posted 17 May 2005 - 11:59 AM
#2
Posted 17 May 2005 - 05:18 PM
Windows needs the pagefile. Definition:
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In storage, a pagefile is a reserved portion of a hard disk that is used as an extension of random access memory (RAM) for data in RAM that hasn't been used recently. A pagefile can be read from the hard disk as one contiguous chunk of data and thus faster than re-reading data from many different original locations. Windows NT administrators or users can reset the system-provided default size value of the pagefile to meet their particular needs.
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So, think of it as overflow from your ram... kinda.
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In storage, a pagefile is a reserved portion of a hard disk that is used as an extension of random access memory (RAM) for data in RAM that hasn't been used recently. A pagefile can be read from the hard disk as one contiguous chunk of data and thus faster than re-reading data from many different original locations. Windows NT administrators or users can reset the system-provided default size value of the pagefile to meet their particular needs.
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So, think of it as overflow from your ram... kinda.
#3
Posted 17 May 2005 - 06:19 PM
It's mandatory to have it unless you've got 2 gigs of RAM on ur PC.
#4
Posted 17 May 2005 - 11:01 PM
thank you, it helps alot
#5
Posted 18 May 2005 - 07:53 AM
I got my page file split as 1 gig on two hard drive 512 mB per hard drive make things go a bit faster for me.
#6
Posted 06 June 2005 - 11:39 PM
i have a gig or ram but my pagefile is still over 2 gigs and all i got on my pc is a few games so....
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