Vista - Virtual Memory Paging File - Change

**Brink** · 02-18-2008

How to Change the Virtual Memory Paging File in Vista

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**Brink** · 07-31-2008

Chuckbam,

I would believe that you would always still need the pagefile. Vista will not use it until you run out space in RAM anyway. It is better to be safe than get a out of memory error followed by a BSOD.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

**chuckbam** · 08-01-2008

But if I had 12 GB of DDR3 and keeped pagefile at default (system managed) I don't think that it would need any special tweaking . Do you?

**Brink** · 08-01-2008

No, the default settings should work just fine for you.

**chuckbam** · 08-01-2008

Thanks,

I just hope I can hold out till the prices come down I am a 49 yr old kid with this stuff. The sys I have now works great

I did the Clear Virtual Memory Paging File at Shutdown reg. I think I may go back to default. It did slow my shutdown. And it seems like the boot too.

**Brink** · 08-01-2008

LOL, I hear you Chuck. Having it set to clear it at shutdown will add some wait time to the shutdown, and to the boot time by having to reload what it needs. That's usually only helpful if privacy and security is a higher priority over performance when you have multiple users on the computer.

**chuckbam** · 08-01-2008

I really don't like my info all over my hard drives. I don't think Disk Cleanup and CCleaner etc. delete the page file sys. Is there any way to clear it manually?

I am happy you told me about the slow boot. I was not sure that was the clear Virtual Memory reg mod causing that. I like to run long up-times and keep an eye on the event viewer. But, this is just a little to poky for me.

**Brink** · 08-01-2008

Superfetch usually handles what is added and removed from RAM and the paging file automatically as needed, and does a great job at it.

The only manual method that I know of is enable it to do so at shutdown when you want to from this link, then disable it afterwards.

Virtual Memory Paging File - Clear at Shutdown

**chuckbam** · 08-01-2008

I have Prefetch set for boot only and Superfetch set to programs only. Probably I am good since it should all (most) go into the RAM.

I have a light duty dual core Vista notebook. Till I did away with Prefetch that HD never stopped working. I disabled indexing long before. I am not sold on Prefetch. I know for a fact that turning that thing off increased my notebooks performance. When I fist looked at it, the folder was very large. All that to start a program faster that I probably am not using?

**swarfega** · 08-01-2008

Quote: Originally Posted by chuckbam

Quote: Originally Posted by swarfega

ah nice. btw Im swarfega, da cleaner is a custom title

Sorry swarfega, I just thought "da cleaner" was a cool name.

I have been doing a little reading and the new large drives seem to have some very good performance. I need more and more HD space all the time (like many of us). The 750 GB drives are really going down in price and 1.5TB will soon be out.

I plan to do a new build in Spring 09. I think by then the 1 TB drives will be a good deal. I may keep one RAID 0 as my C drive with 2x 500GB drives I am using now. But, that may change. I like Seagate drives.

I plan to have 12 GBs of memory. And cross fire my little HD3850 512MB. A second one by then should be cheap. It supports PCI-x 2.0 and I am not a gamer. I do- do a lot of video editing and converting etc.

I want the lower end Bloomfield 2.66 GHz 4 cores and Hyper-Threading. may be the lower end Bloomfield, but in no way will it be a low end LGA1366 CPU.

OK pagefile, hmmm, will I really use it much?

hehe da cleaner is kinda cool

hmm I wonder what the pricing for the new lga1366 will be. Could be expensive.

Also there is currently no point in having more than 4gb of ram as ive read that there is no performance difference between 4 and anything higher.

**chuckbam** · 08-01-2008

4 Gb ~8 GB w/ Vista 64, my testing proved to me different. This should be the opining prices :

I would not call any Bloomfield a mainstream CPU. They will come out shortly after the launch. This is going to be a major advancement by Intel. This is just not a new socket 775! This is big. You need to read up on all the improvements. Intel is taking us into the next generation of computing. And, many other component technologies are getting mature enough to be right there with them. It is going to all come together. The bandwidth is going to blow everything we have seen in the past away. Well, they are already testing this stuff. You just need to take a look for your self. Software , patches, utilities and such will follow. It is in the back rooms now. Nehalem News

02-18-2008
Brink Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 26,103 posts	Virtual Memory Paging File - Change How to Change the Virtual Memory Paging File in Vista ... Click here to read the entire tutorial
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07-31-2008
Brink Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 26,103 posts	Re: Virtual Memory Paging File - Change Chuckbam, I would believe that you would always still need the pagefile. Vista will not use it until you run out space in RAM anyway. It is better to be safe than get a out of memory error followed by a BSOD. Hope this helps, Shawn
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08-01-2008
chuckbam Vista Ultimate 64-bit 76 posts	Re: Virtual Memory Paging File - Change But if I had 12 GB of DDR3 and keeped pagefile at default (system managed) I don't think that it would need any special tweaking . Do you?
My System Specs

08-01-2008
Brink Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 26,103 posts	Re: Virtual Memory Paging File - Change No, the default settings should work just fine for you.
My System Specs

08-01-2008
chuckbam Vista Ultimate 64-bit 76 posts	Re: Virtual Memory Paging File - Change Thanks, I just hope I can hold out till the prices come down I am a 49 yr old kid with this stuff. The sys I have now works great I did the Clear Virtual Memory Paging File at Shutdown reg. I think I may go back to default. It did slow my shutdown. And it seems like the boot too.
My System Specs

08-01-2008
swarfega Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 403 posts	Re: Virtual Memory Paging File - Change Quote: Originally Posted by chuckbam Quote: Originally Posted by swarfega ah nice. btw Im swarfega, da cleaner is a custom title Sorry swarfega, I just thought "da cleaner" was a cool name. I have been doing a little reading and the new large drives seem to have some very good performance. I need more and more HD space all the time (like many of us). The 750 GB drives are really going down in price and 1.5TB will soon be out. I plan to do a new build in Spring 09. I think by then the 1 TB drives will be a good deal. I may keep one RAID 0 as my C drive with 2x 500GB drives I am using now. But, that may change. I like Seagate drives. I plan to have 12 GBs of memory. And cross fire my little HD3850 512MB. A second one by then should be cheap. It supports PCI-x 2.0 and I am not a gamer. I do- do a lot of video editing and converting etc. I want the lower end Bloomfield 2.66 GHz 4 cores and Hyper-Threading. may be the lower end Bloomfield, but in no way will it be a low end LGA1366 CPU. OK pagefile, hmmm, will I really use it much? hehe da cleaner is kinda cool hmm I wonder what the pricing for the new lga1366 will be. Could be expensive. Also there is currently no point in having more than 4gb of ram as ive read that there is no performance difference between 4 and anything higher.
My System Specs

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