Pagefile.sys present even when set to not use

rocketfalls

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Jul 5, 2013
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I have a 20gb pagefile.sys on my SSD, despite me already having set the paging file to "none" in advanced settings. Am I missing something here? I swear that wasn't there before, and my settings haven't changed. I do have it set to use a paging file on my second drive, is it possible that that's somehow showing up on my SSD instead?

Am I supposed to just go in and delete the existing pagefile and the setting just prevents Windows from making a new one? I have 8GB of RAM, would it be better to have a small pagefile instead of none? How would I go about changing the size of the existing pagefile, if I should be doing that instead?

Thanks.
 


You will have to reboot first if you haven't done so already.