Delete Pagefile on shutdown?

[Topha]

How do I make winXP do that?

Thanks

[az]

I think it's as easy as setting the minimum size to 0.

AZ

[Topha]

Found a registry setting, next time I'll google first, then post here, sorry.

thanks anyway, az

[Jammrock]

Or you can download TweakUI from teh MS PowerToys collection. It has some nice little tweaks in it.

Jammrock

[cjolley]

Re: Delete Pagefile on shutdown?

Originally posted by Topha
How do I make winXP do that?

Thanks

I'm curious.
Why would one want to do that?
Chuck

[ayoub_ibrahim]

security??

[Topha]

yep, and I think it makes windows a tad faster after a reboot

[Marshmallowman]

Setting a permanent swap space eg max=min on a defragged drive will give you an optimal setup, without having to recreate the swap space on every reboot.

[High_Jumbllama]

Originally posted by ayoub_ibrahim
security??

Nope. THen you'd have to overwrite the sectors the swap file was using during the entire time since the last reboot.

[MultimediaMan]

IIRC, long uptimes on certain types of Windows Boxes can create problems with the Swapfile. Deleting it and recreating it during boot can alleviate some of these problems.

[leech]

Originally posted by Marshmallowman
Setting a permanent swap space eg max=min on a defragged drive will give you an optimal setup, without having to recreate the swap space on every reboot.

I was thinking recently of doing this, but wasn't sure how windows would react to it. Since I figured that's the preferred method for Linux, that windows might work better as well (I know after I removed the pagefile, defragged, then re-enabled the pagefile, windows certainly ran faster, if not more stable.)

Leech

[cjolley]

Originally posted by leech
I was thinking recently of doing this, but wasn't sure how windows would react to it. Since I figured that's the preferred method for Linux, that windows might work better as well (I know after I removed the pagefile, defragged, then re-enabled the pagefile, windows certainly ran faster, if not more stable.)

Leech

Or, you can go full Linuxesque and put the swap file in it's own partition or on a drive <> C:.
I had mine on a separate stripe array made of small old drives for a while.
Worked great.
Chuck

[Jorden]

Re: Delete Pagefile on shutdown?

Originally posted by Topha
How do I make winXP do that?

Thanks

You cannot delete the pagefile on shutdown, yet you can CLEAR it everytime.

1. Click on the Start button
2. Go to the Control Panel
3. Administrative Tools
4. Local Security Policy
5. Local Policies
6. Click on Security Options
7. Right hand menu - right click on "Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile"
8. Select "Enable"
9. Reboot

[The PIT]

The ghost returns

Hay up Jo Isn't that effectively clearing it???

[Jorden]

He asked to DELETE it everytime... this way it clears it, so that's an affirmative, TP.