Quick Tip - **Cleaning Pagefile**

Hi,

Here's a quick tip that'll help secure your privacy in windows.

If your using windows, you may or may not be familiar with pagefile.sys, basically it is virtual memory which gets writen onto when windows has used all your availible RAM. The problem with this is potentially private info could be stored there.

But there's a way around this, do the following:

Click start --> type regedit --> hit ok.

Navigate to the Memory Management key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

Change the value of ClearPageFileAtShutdown to 1, then close regedit. (If the value ClearPageFileAtShutdown is blank or does not exist, create it and add a DWORD value of 1).

Done

 

Thanks for the tip

 

Your welcome

Thanks for the reply.

 

Hello, I did the regedit thing and when I arrived at " ClearPageFileValueAtShutdown to 1." my setting was already set at 1.
Is this normal for me to have this setting without doing it manually?
I'm very intersted. Please email me with your opinion to [removed]

Thanks in advance
Kevin

 

It seems yours is already pre-tweaked,Kevin. This isn't a worry, sometimes it can be like that

 

@Quintis

I would remove your email address, because a spam bot could get a hold of it and then you could start getting loads of spam. better to just pm rav009 the address.

 

I tried doing this howeverI was unable to change the setting from 0 to 1 infact I could not change it at all.I tried the add a word DWORD AND SETTING A VALUE OF 1 BUT IT ALSO WOULD NOT ALLOW A SETTING OF 1. HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

THANK YOU FOR THE TIP
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