While you probably don't need to adjust your PC's page and swap files, it's useful to know what they are when troubleshooting.
While you probably don't need to adjust your PC's page and swap files, it's useful to know what they are when troubleshooting, or if you're trying to free up a little hard drive space. A page file acts like a physical extension of RAM and is used to offload excess or idle data from the memory to the hard disk. It's necessary because if the main system RAM is overloaded and noThe swap file and the page file perform essentially the same function.
Besides using only a small portion of your disk space, the swap file does not impact performance as long as it’s not being accessed constantly . This typically happens when the system is depleted of actual RAM. If this is happening to you, consider installing more RAM. There isn’t a way to directly adjust the size of the swap file. If you have a page file enabled on your machine, which you should by default, then Windows will dynamically adjust its size for you.Initially, Windows will configure a page file size based on the amount of memory installed and free disk space available. If you don't run memory intensive applications other than games, you can shrink the page file down to a fraction of your total available RAM.
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