Is clearing the Page File worth it?

Steedie · 9 Feb 2006 at 15:45

Hey guys

i been using this setting for ages now, but its starting to do my head in as the shut down times are stupidly slow because of it

is it really worth it? and do programs like tune up, ccleaner clear it anyway?

opinions please

thanks

Energize · 9 Feb 2006 at 19:11

You could completley disable the pagefile.

Steedie · 9 Feb 2006 at 19:41

any other solutions?

i dont wanna do that cause obviously its not good to run without virtual memory

cheers anyway though

NathanE · 9 Feb 2006 at 20:31

Energize said:
You could completley disable the pagefile.

Could. But shouldn't.

Steedie said:
obviously its not good to run without virtual memory

That's impossible anyway

Turn off the Registry setting. It's useless. Why did you enable it in the first place?

The page file gets overwritten each time you boot up your PC. During runtime it is managed by the kernel. There is no third party software that can optimise this at all. It is already optimised.

Simmy · 9 Feb 2006 at 21:04

unless you have something to hide (

), i wouldn't bother clearing it.

I use a program called tunexp to disable. It does some other cool stuff aswell. Take a look at that

NathanE · 9 Feb 2006 at 21:11

Simmy said:
I use a program called tunexp to disable. It does some other cool stuff aswell. Take a look at that

I wouldn't call disabling the page file "cool". It's more sheer stupidity. Sorry

Simmy · 9 Feb 2006 at 21:27

no, i didn't mean to disable the page file. I meant to disable clearing the page file at shutdown.

saffyre · 9 Feb 2006 at 23:21

Seems pointless to me as your only going to have to load the data from the page file as apposed to somewhere else on the hdd i cant see how that will improve performance.

NathanE · 9 Feb 2006 at 23:27

Simmy said:
no, i didn't mean to disable the page file. I meant to disable clearing the page file at shutdown.

Oops