Re: NT : Want to delete the pagefile.sys file

Posted in 1998

Randy L. Cross — Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:47:45 -0600 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On 10 Apr 98 at 14:22, Ravi Joseph Pinto wrote: > In article <6gleq6$gc3$1@news.xmission.com>, > "Sunil Thakkar" <sunil0@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi NT Users, > Hi Sunil, > > > > > I am basically Unix person and am not aware of many things on NT. > > I have a file in the c:\\ directory (pagefile.sys) which is more then 1 > > GB. I am not sure as to why it is there, and if it is really required. > > <<Various details snipped off>> > > > > > Give me some way to do away with this file so I can free the 1 Gig. of > > disk space. > > > > You can't get rid of pagefile.sys because it is a file which is required by > Windows NT. It is basically the NT kernel on disc. So, forget about getting > back the 1GB disk space. > NT guys please correct me if I am wrong because I too have more experience > using Unix. > > > Thanks, > > Sunil Thakkar. > HTH, > Ravi... I'm not much on NT, however, pagefile.sys, which is a paging file NT uses for virtual memory, can be (re)sized by user administrator. Recommend size is system RAM plus 12MB. rc