Deleting Pagefile.sys

Anonymous
2018-02-21T16:21:12+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2018-02-23T19:24:03+00:00

    The real solution here is to create a system image with recovery and boot included.

    buy a bigger drive, install windows 10, use start up options and restore image back to C:\ and recovery partitions and keep his same OS and files and settings.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-02-23T19:23:20+00:00

    so what i just need to do is to try what you said to me in the previous answer right ?

    120GB is not enough space to sustain a Windows 10 installation in the long run, as you're finding out.  Just after your original post I asked for a screenshot of your Disk Management window.  The request was apparently lost in the flood of sidetracking replies, but if you could do it now, we might be able to solve your disk space problems.

    LOL He showed you, THIS PC shows C and D drive and info, there is nothing he is going to do or accomplish looking in disk management to free up space or provide you anything.  he has 3 partitions for boot and recovery and the rest on the little drive is C:\OS.

    He can move personal files to D:, he can use disk clean up to free up some space or uninstall some unused programs and that is about it.

    ****The request was apparently lost in the flood of sidetracking replies, but if you could do it now, we might be able to solve your disk space problems.

    LOL sidetracking, you are asking for info that is totally irrelevant and can provide no help or solutions seeing comp management

    OK, genius, are there two physical disks or is there one disk with multiple partitions?  Can you see where the answer might be relevant to a problem with lack of space on the system drive?

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-02-23T19:21:45+00:00

    This is not rocket science, it is simple, basic, obvious situation and obvious possible resolutions. LOL

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-02-23T19:19:48+00:00

    so what i just need to do is to try what you said to me in the previous answer right ?

    120GB is not enough space to sustain a Windows 10 installation in the long run, as you're finding out.  Just after your original post I asked for a screenshot of your Disk Management window.  The request was apparently lost in the flood of sidetracking replies, but if you could do it now, we might be able to solve your disk space problems.

    LOL He showed you, THIS PC shows C and D drive and info, there is nothing he is going to do or accomplish looking in disk management to free up space or provide you anything.  he has 3 partitions for boot and recovery and the rest on the little drive is C:\OS.

    He can move personal files to D:, he can use disk clean up to free up some space or uninstall some unused programs and that is about it.

    ****The request was apparently lost in the flood of sidetracking replies, but if you could do it now, we might be able to solve your disk space problems.

    LOL sidetracking, you are asking for info that is totally irrelevant and can provide no help or solutions seeing comp management

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-02-23T18:43:03+00:00

    so what i just need to do is to try what you said to me in the previous answer right ?

    120GB is not enough space to sustain a Windows 10 installation in the long run, as you're finding out.  Just after your original post I asked for a screenshot of your Disk Management window.  The request was apparently lost in the flood of sidetracking replies, but if you could do it now, we might be able to solve your disk space problems.

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