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chris635:
Hey Shane

   Have you ever had any trouble running windows 7 64 bit without a pagefile? I have 8gb of ram and thinking about disabling the pagefile. Are there any significant speed changes? I read somewhere that some software require a pagefile to run correctly. Is this true? Trying to tweak my machine for the best stable speed possible.


Chris

Shane:
I run my win 7 64 bit 8gb of ram without the page file.

No program uses the page file. Only Windows does. It controls it. If you have a BSOD you need it, but you can always turn it back on if you get one so it will make the dump file.

The only reason I or anyone else would get a speed gain is the bottle neck of the hard drive. By getting rid of the page file the hard drive isnt used for any memory at all. Even when you have tons of memory Windows still puts stuff int he page file. And so your waiting on the hard drive at that point.

So as long as you have plenty of memory then you will be fine.

Try it, if you feel you dont like it you can simply turn it back on :wink:

Shane

chris635:
I just set it and after boot went back to system properties to check and it warned me it set a pagefile on its own. I'm using diskeeper so I checked the size and looks it set a very small one. Should it do this?


Chris

Shane:
Just set it to no page file and reboot :wink:

Shane

chris635:
Thats what I did

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