Comments on: Clear Page File At Reboot or Shutdown

By: AlexTheBeast

AlexTheBeast — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 14:13:55 +0000

TECH_GUEST–

Thanks for the warning! It certainly will slow down shutdown times as it wipes this file.

By: TECH_GUEST

TECH_GUEST — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 10:13:08 +0000

Beware that doing this can greatly increase the time required to shutdown your XP system. Well – OK maybe 90 seconds or so depending on the machine. To me this is an eternity when needing to dash out the door w/my laptop (2ghz).

Test before setting policy for a large organization.

-voice of experience

By: AlexTheBeast

AlexTheBeast — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:59:13 +0000

I don’t know which operating system the above recipe is directed.

In XP–

First navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementClearPageFileAtShutdown

Change this value to 1 to enable.
Change this value to 0 to disable (default).