Paging file size

Kinnyr900

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Hi I have 32 gigs of memory or ram installed in my system. I have a 128 gb ssd drive. Opening programs and shutting down and booting back into windows seem a little slow. I'm wondering what I should set my paging file size too for a custom size right now I have the min and max in the system icon of the control panel set for 200 each. min allowed 16mb recommended it says is 4987.

Currently allocated is 200 MB Can you just tell me or show me how to do the math so I can get a better paging file size for 32 gigs of memory. I don't think 200 is working all that great.

Thanks I appreciate it.
 

Kinnyr900

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I have 4 Drives total Onbe ssd samsung 850 pro 128 gb I have 3 master hard drives 2 Western digital 2 TB or they both might be 3 TB. and 1 Hitachi at the same 2 TB Or 3 TB. I have a gigabyte motherboard GAZ77XUD5H. aND i HAVE A CORE I7 Processor 3770 3.40ghz (3rd gen) My memory is Corsair ddr3 dual channel. Video nvidia gt 640. and if you need anything else I will be happy to provide that.

 

Kinnyr900

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Okay so what should I set mine for with 32 gigs of memory it's suppossed to be 1/5 the total of your current memory that I have right? so I'm not sure


Thank you!

 

USAFRet

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"supposed to" and "what you actually need" are two different things.

With 32GB RAM, and an SSD boot drive....Set it to 1GB initial and MAX. 1024mb.
With that much RAM, you will rarely if ever actually use that pagefile. But you don't want to get rid of it completely.

1GB min/max. See how it goes. I personally have had zero issues.


From your initial statement:
"Opening programs and shutting down and booting back into windows seem a little slow."

This has nothing to do with the pagefile.
How full is the SSD? How old is that install? What extra crap do you have in the Startup?
 

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Oh I'm sorry I just reinstalled windows 10 last night home edition and I did a legacy install which means that I set my boot mode in the bios for leagacy first. Cause I did not want to boot from the device mamanger. and I did not want to use a UEFI install.
 

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I seem to remember that in windows vista and 7, if you set it to disabled, windows would automatically put in a 256 mb page file anyway. But yeah, you should always have some paging file. I've got by just fine in my 8 gig ram and 128 gig SSD system with just a 512mb page file. Some programs, particularly legacy programs written for 9x and xp, won't play nice if the page file is missing or too small. Your speed issue may be imagined, or it may be coming from somewhere else such as a hung driver or hung program on bootup. something like google updater or logitech download assistant or a big bloated AV program.