My main laptop only has 512GB of storage, so I’m constantly looking for ways to free up space and manage it better. But for the longest time, I had no idea Windows itself was wasting a massive amount ...

Hypothetical system running Exchange 2013 on Windows Server 2012. I’ve a question about paging file size. On one hand, I almost always let system set paging file, plus Windows 8 and Server 2012 have ...

Hello, everyone. Apologies for a noobish question, but as it turns out, this is a bit more complex than it appears. In setting up my system for an SSD, I want to run the paging file of XP pro 64 on a ...

There is a hidden file on your computer that has probably been eating up space on your C: drive for years, and you likely had no idea it was even there. It is not malware, not a runaway browser cache, ...

A blog for IT professionals who work with Windows on large networks. In working on a Windows 10 story for SearchEnterpriseDesktop this week, I came to an interesting realization. In Windows 10, MS has ...

A simple tweak of the Windows 10 Registry file can eliminate one often overlooked security concern. Survey after survey tells us that IT professionals and decision-making executives all over the world ...

64-bit versions of Windows and Windows Server support more physical memory (RAM) than 32-bit versions support. However, the reason to configure or increase page file size has not changed. It has ...

Windows creates a Pagefile.sys file in "C" drive's root directory, and it is used to swap data between the hard drive and the faster random access memory, or RAM. By default, this file can be up to ...

Windows XP uses a paging file to provide a temporary space on your hard disk that acts like RAM. Paging files aren't as fast as RAM, but they can help ensure that the computer doesn't run out of ...