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Deleting Pagefile.sys
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Anonymous
Hello I got quite a problem for my windows
My Local Disk C is suddenly really full and the i downloaded windirstat
and i found that the pagefile.sys is really big
is it okay to delete that ?
or do you know what maybe caused the problem .. that made my local disk C is always full
I used my laptop mostly to design
using Autodesk Application, Sketchup, Photoshop and Illustrator
then today my scratch disk are suddenly full that I cant open anything at my photoshop at all
This is my laptop:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version 10.0.16299 Build 16299
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name S-PC
System Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
System Model GL502VMK
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz, 2808 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. GL502VMK.300, 12/27/2016
SMBIOS Version 3.0
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
BaseBoard Model Not Available
BaseBoard Name Base Board
Platform Role Mobile
Secure Boot State On
PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.16299.248"
User Name S-PC\Samuel Immanuel
Time Zone Malay Peninsula Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 15.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 10.1 GB
Total Virtual Memory 22.2 GB
Available Virtual Memory 14.9 GB
Page File Space 6.25 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Device Encryption Support Elevation Required to View
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes
Thanks
Best Regards,
Samuel
Windows for home | Windows 10 | Files, folders, and storage
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Anonymous
2018-02-21T17:34:27+00:00 -
Anonymous
2018-02-21T17:21:12+00:00 I realize that deleting the pagefile will cause big problems to the OS.
what i mean is reading the article carefully and MOVE the file to another drive
thanks
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Anonymous
2018-02-21T17:13:59+00:00 Hi
read this article carefully. i think you can safely delete the pagefile.syswhen it gets so big and have nothings to do with the performance.
Perhaps you should read the article, especially where it says,
...you can't and shouldn't delete pagefile.sys. Doing so will mean Windows has nowhere to put data when physical RAM is full and will likely crash (or the app you're using will crash).
This isn't exactly right either, as much depends on the amount of available physical RAM and how it's being used. The best solution is usually to relocate pagefile.sys, if it's possible, which we won't know until the OP responds again.
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Anonymous
2018-02-21T17:08:32+00:00 Hi
read this article carefully. i think you can safely delete the pagefile.syswhen it gets so big and have nothings to do with the performance.
Managing and deleting pagefile.sys on
Windows 10good luck
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Anonymous
2018-02-21T16:43:18+00:00 Dear Jim
Hi there
Oh ya I forgot
It is quite small - 118 gb
but as i recall I dont really put to much things on my local disk C
Thanks
Sam