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Windows Swap (Page File): Enable or Disable?

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Mar 15, 202654304 views
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From my personal experience I've noticed that disabling the page file in Windows XP has given me, in general, the most speed gain out of any other software change I can make. Obviously this has to be done when a significant amount of RAM is available. Typically I find that it works nicely with +2GB…

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Don't mess with it, let Windows figure itself out. This ServerFault answer is the most excellent explanation of why: Many people seem to assume that Windows pushes data into the pagefile on demand. EG: something wants a lot of memory, and there is n…

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