As a tech writer, I regularly cringe at all the bad tweaking advice out there, and disabling the system pagefile is often a source of contention among geeks. Let's examine some of the pagefile ...

One of the swap file's primary functions is to provide a page space for Windows Apps from the Windows Store. When a Windows app enters idle mode, it’s unloaded into the swap file until the user ...

64-bit versions of Windows and Windows Server support more physical memory (RAM) than 32-bit versions support. However, the reason to configure or increase page file size has not changed.

All programs on a PC use random access memory (RAM), but when there isn't enough memory to run a program, Windows temporarily moves information normally stored in RAM to the paging file on the hard ...

If you have 16GB RAM, Windows will tend to manage the file very conservatively-- only writing to it on fairly infrequent occasions as you actually need to page out data from RAM. It won't get ...