How to delete pagingfile.sys

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I have to hard drives and thought that maybe if I have lots of virtual ram then it will increase performance, which it didnt. I made the paging file 10gb on my secondary hard drive and want to delete it. Ive set it to no paging, but the file is still there. Is there anyway to manually delete it?

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I have to hard drives and thought that maybe if I have lots of virtual ram then it will increase performance, which it didnt. I made the paging file 10gb on my secondary hard drive and want to delete it. Ive set it to no paging, but the file is still there. Is there anyway to manually delete it?

After you set the 2nd HD to have no page file did you restart? If it's in use atm even after you set it to not have one it'll keep uisng it till you restart windows.

So restart and it should be gone, if it's still there then just delete it manually yourself.

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yh I have restarted, but its still there. How do I manually remove it? becuase it doesnt show up when I show hidden files and folders.

never mind found it.

You have to uncheck the "Hide protected system files" setting in file and search options.

It's a little bit further down from the one you changed already, lots of people miss it or don't even know it's there.

Once you do that pagefile.sys will show up on your 2nd drive. It should be in the root drive directory. So like D:\ etc.

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If you set it to no pagefile it should have self-deleted. Go back to the Advanced Settings and make sure it reads "no pagefile" on that drive. You need to make sure you clicked "okay" or "apply" on the way out of that setting after making the change.

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I didn't really intend for it to be directed at you, but i'm glad it helped anyway.

I made the same mistake only the other day. I've deliberately been running XP without a pagefile to test it's viability.

Performance had no real difference accross the board - but applications did start crashing.

I'm talking about applications which had never crashed while i had a PF, like World of Warcraft and Firefox.

During the crash, the system message popped up "Your system is starting to run low on virtual memory" etc etc.

I've only got 2gb of ram, which granted is pretty low in this day and age, but it's a good basis by which i can say "Don't do it with W7, at all."

I still had 300+MB of physical ram free when the crashes occured, so there are large issues with running no pagefile in XP.

I doubt it's any different in W7.

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