Disabling paging files causes programs not to work.

No idea, but if you really need the space why not try putting the page file on another drive and see how that feels.
 
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.
 
Rroff said:
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.
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That's what I was fearing, what would you say would be a reasonable paging file size which isn't unnecessary?
 
oliver2601 said:
Hmm, do you know if I would see much difference between the paging files being on my SSD or my HDD?
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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.
 
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
 
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.
 
John24 said:
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.
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Yeah, it's always the small ones that you need the most too ^^
 
John24 said:
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.
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Similar here (I am on W7), with 8GB of RAM I never run into problems except of maybe game called Company Of Heroes which simply required page file to be enabled regardless of RAM capacity. With x64 OSes the page file is obsolete imo.
 
I set a tiny 32MB initial size Page file with my SSD to test....had a windows update fail instantly.

Put it back to system managed, updates worked fine, it's staying like that.

It should be obsolete, but in practice stuff just breaks without it.
 
oliver2601 said:
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.
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Warhammer 4000 Dawn of War II :)

Only needs a shortcut edit though to avoid that and also i haven't had a page file set for over 2years
 
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