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 ...

Hiberfil.sys file is a system file that is used by Windows to support Hibernation. If you have enabled Hibernation in Windows, you will see this file. When you have Hibernation, and subsequently Fast ...

As someone who has written three books on Hyper-V, I tend to get a lot of Hyper-V-related questions from readers. Some of the most common questions that I get are related to Hyper-V's smart paging ...

Your PC's SSD is responsible for storing everything from your operating system to your most important files. But did you know that a default Windows 11 setting could slowly wear it down? That setting ...

Is there anyway to move the paging file to the front of a drive. I was running Diskeeper and noticed my paging file is all the way in the back of the drive rather then thge front. So how do I move it ...

This sounds like something that shouldn't happen, but I saw my page file come withing 5 meg of being maxed out when only 150/512 meg of RAM was being used. I have the min/max size set the same. Would ...

As a tech writer, I regularly cringe at all the bad tweaking advice out there, and disabling the system pagefile is often a source of contention among geeks. Let's examine some of the pagefile myths ...

Virtual memory ensures that programs run smoothly. All programs on a PC use random access memory (RAM), but when there isn't enough memory to run a program, Windows temporarily moves information ...