Thursday, June 24, 2010

Clearing the Page File on Shutdown

  • Click on the Start button
  • Go to the Control Panel
  • Administrative Tools
  • Local Security Policy
  • Local Policies
  • Click on Security Options
  • Right hand menu - right click on "Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile"
  • Select "Enable"
  • Reboot

For regedit users.....
If you want to clear the page file on each shutdown:

Start Regedit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\
create a new Dword "ClearPageFileAtShutdown"
Set the value to 1

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