Clear the PageFile on shutdown

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Clear the PageFile on shutdown

Post by ar » Oct 29, 2008 Views: 908

Clear the PageFile on shutdown

The Pagefile.sys is used for the Virtual Memory of Windows (compensates RAM).

Clearing it make your system more secure (temporary data may be written in the pagefile.sys and accessed without having administrator privileges).


To enable this, go to Start - ‘Run’ and type regedit.exe.

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management and double click the ClearPageFileAtShutdown key.


Change it value to 1 in decimal. Restart your computer.
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