Disabling paging files causes programs not to work.

[oliver2601]

Does anybody know any programs which won't work without paging files? Running really low on my SSD so trying to free up every MB I can.

 

[oliver2601]

No idea, but if you really need the space why not try putting the page file on another drive and see how that feels.

Hmm, do you know if I would see much difference between the paging files being on my SSD or my HDD?

 

[oliver2601]

Problem is its fairly unpredictable, some programs might throw out an error on startup others might run fine 90% of the time but run into situations where they can't function without it.

That's what I was fearing, what would you say would be a reasonable paging file size which isn't unnecessary?

 

[oliver2601]

I put my page file on another HD when I got my first SSD over 18 months ago and I don't remember if there was much performance loss, it's a Samsung so not as fast at todays SSD's. You would need to try it for yourself.

Alright, cheers anyway

 

[oliver2601]

I disabled the pagefile years ago, I can remember one small really old program that required the pagefile to be enable before it would work. Apart from that one instance I've had no problems. As long as you don't run out of RAM you'll be fine. I'm on XP though, other OS's may behave differently.

Yeah, it's always the small ones that you need the most too ^^

 

[oliver2601]

if uhave a lot of ram u prolly wont use the page file that much, so having it on another drive shouldnt effect perforance.

just as long as you have one incase some program needs it to be there

Got 8GB so will be fine hopefully, cheers.