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Any reason not to disable the Windows pagefile given enough physical RAM?

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Mar 15, 202630704 views
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The question of disabling the Windows pagefile has already been discussed quite a bit, for example here and here and here. People continue to upvote answers that say "you should not disable your pagefile even if you have plenty of RAM", but I have yet to see any concrete, verifiable reasons being g…

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Fix for: Any reason not to disable the Windows pagefile given enough physical RAM?

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This is a micro-optimization. The point is that there's no reason to do it, in anything resembling normal operation. It could easily hurt you if your usage pattern changes. In specialized cases it might make sense, such as if there is no local write…

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