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
    2018-02-23T21:09:59+00:00

    I do not try or like being rude and what not, but sitting back as a Monday morning quarterback and giving advice that is a waste of time, can wipe out your OS system or files and send people on a wild goose chase into the abyss thinking oh, this is easy and a cinch, and then knowing the person giving this advice has never even did something remotely close to this before, and if they had and knew what they were talking about, would not even mention such off the wall nonsense to resolve an issue to begin with. Most people that come here with issues, if they can do this with even slight ease, then they would not be here asking about a pagefile and how to move or resolve their issue.

    It is much cheaper financially and mentally to buy a new 1TB or 2TB SSD or HDD, back up their files to the external location, even another PC public folder on their home networks, or better yet create a system image and install windows on the new drive and then restore the new drive & new OS with your image and now you have your laptop exactly as it was with the exception you now have mega storage space.

    That $60.00 for the drive and maybe 4 hours of work trouble free is well worth all the stress and BS to do anything other than that and know you have not lost anything in the process but $60.00.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-02-23T20:20:18+00:00

    Why would it be necessary to buy a bigger drive when the OP already has a terabyte of disk space?  Things can be rearranged, but we don't know how they can be rearranged without knowing about the layout. 

    LOL , NOT, NONSENSE

    That is not going to happen. if he wants to shrink D:\ drive and knows how to create all the 4 partitions along with the partition that he already has on D:\ with data on it, well good luck to him.

    and then why would anyone with a laptop install windows on an external USB drive and then if they go anywhere, they have to haul that around and have additional power source for the USB drive and then the battery for laptop use is useless if there is no power source available to connect your USB OS drive that needs AC power.

    LOL.

    I'm sorry, I think I must have missed the part where the OP said that the 1TB drive was external.  You do know, of course, that laptops can be had that have both a relatively small SSD and a larger internal hard drive?

    HMMM I guess so, on the top on his post

    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

    That is possible, if so, he still has to create the 3 partitions on it along with his already partition with data on it, which is an advanced task for most people and does he know how to shrink the current and then can he get the EFI boot and recovery partition  #1 or #2 partition and C:\ #3 partition while he has data on it already, I am not positive, but I do not think so. Maybe partition magic could do it. All without wiping out his data on D:\ now. Big risk for any person to do even if they are a wiz.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-02-23T20:14:32+00:00

    Why would it be necessary to buy a bigger drive when the OP already has a terabyte of disk space?  Things can be rearranged, but we don't know how they can be rearranged without knowing about the layout. 

    LOL , NOT, NONSENSE

    That is not going to happen. if he wants to shrink D:\ drive and knows how to create all the 4 partitions along with the partition that he already has on D:\ with data on it, well good luck to him.

    and then why would anyone with a laptop install windows on an external USB drive and then if they go anywhere, they have to haul that around and have additional power source for the USB drive and then the battery for laptop use is useless if there is no power source available to connect your USB OS drive that needs AC power.

    LOL.

    I'm sorry, I think I must have missed the part where the OP said that the 1TB drive was external.  You do know, of course, that laptops can be had that have both a relatively small SSD and a larger internal hard drive?

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-02-23T19:58:50+00:00

    Why would it be necessary to buy a bigger drive when the OP already has a terabyte of disk space?  Things can be rearranged, but we don't know how they can be rearranged without knowing about the layout. 

    LOL , NOT, NONSENSE

    That is not going to happen. if he wants to shrink D:\ drive and knows how to create all the 4 partitions along with the partition that he already has on D:\ with data on it, well good luck to him.

    and then why would anyone with a laptop install windows on an external USB drive and then if they go anywhere, they have to haul that around and have additional power source for the USB drive and then the battery for laptop use is useless if there is no power source available to connect your USB OS drive that needs AC power.

    LOL.

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