Pagefile question

[Clean Richards]

My pagefile appears to be gone. My understanding is that the file "pagefile.sys" resides at C:\ by default. I did a search of both hard drives for "pagefile" and it didn't find anything. I also had it look in hidden files and folders. I'm running Windows XP Pro. If my pagefile is indeed gone, how can I get it back? Thanks.

[Clean Richards]

Nevermind, I found it. I thought I had the "show system files" option checked. It wasn't. Doh!!!!

[jmatt]

This may interest you .

http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=31
For added security you should always clear the page file upon shutting down your computer. Windows uses this file as extra ram. Lets say that you are working on a confidential MS Word doc. When you load this document it is loaded into ram. To save ram windows places certain items in the page file. The page file can then be opened and the document can be extracted as well as any other open program or files. However Microsoft has implemented a feature that will clear the page file but they do not have it enabled by default. Please note, this will slightly increase the amount of time it takes to shut down your computer but it is well worth it.

Start Regedit. If you are unfamiliar with regedit please refer to our FAQ on how to get started.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management
Select ClearPageFileAtShutdown from the list on the right.
Right on it and select Modify.
Change the value to 1 to enable.
Reboot your computer.

[Logan2002]

I have no pf I turned it off I have 1.128 gigs of ram.
Now things are much faster....And I guess safer too.

[more]

Just 512MB ram here with page file disabled on all drives.

Could have page file alone on a 5400 rpm 6.4 gig through

a SCSI card or even on seconday IDE as a master.

[AllGamer]

if you really need a PAGE FILE, i would only recomend it on a true SCSI system

else you are much better off get more RAM, to run without a PageFile

:t