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Edge30
Hello,
I've seen lots of pages which recommend different methods to delete the
pagefile.sys.
The most popular methods, even posted by MS, include enabling in the local
security policies an option to automatically delete the file during shutdown
or running a script in the system32 folder (pagefileconfig.vbs /delete /VO
c
These methods are very popular and everybody uses them... but I haven't seen
anybody saying that they actually work...
The reason is that they are "supposed" to delete pagefile.sys at shutdown,
so, if the PC is off nobody can actually check this is true.
When the PC is started next time the file is re-created so... so again,
nobody can confirm it was really deleted before
In my case due to my work I deal with HDDs all the time and I have taken the
HDDs to other systems, even other OS, and check and... the file is always
still there...
I've been behind this for months, tried tons of different systems and never
saw one single case where these methods work.
Has anybody done the same tests?
Does anybody know a method that, for certain, will delete the pagefile.sys?
The problem is that it is 1.5 times local ram. And current systems have
minimum 4GB ram, with 8 and 16 being typical so when I create a partition
image for further cloning if I don't remove it then the image file is
excessively large (unnecesarily).
I always have to remove the file manually from other OS but I would like to
know if there's a real method to do it from XP (or Vista as both show
exactly same behavior)
Any ideas?
Thanks
e.
I've seen lots of pages which recommend different methods to delete the
pagefile.sys.
The most popular methods, even posted by MS, include enabling in the local
security policies an option to automatically delete the file during shutdown
or running a script in the system32 folder (pagefileconfig.vbs /delete /VO
c
These methods are very popular and everybody uses them... but I haven't seen
anybody saying that they actually work...
The reason is that they are "supposed" to delete pagefile.sys at shutdown,
so, if the PC is off nobody can actually check this is true.
When the PC is started next time the file is re-created so... so again,
nobody can confirm it was really deleted before
In my case due to my work I deal with HDDs all the time and I have taken the
HDDs to other systems, even other OS, and check and... the file is always
still there...
I've been behind this for months, tried tons of different systems and never
saw one single case where these methods work.
Has anybody done the same tests?
Does anybody know a method that, for certain, will delete the pagefile.sys?
The problem is that it is 1.5 times local ram. And current systems have
minimum 4GB ram, with 8 and 16 being typical so when I create a partition
image for further cloning if I don't remove it then the image file is
excessively large (unnecesarily).
I always have to remove the file manually from other OS but I would like to
know if there's a real method to do it from XP (or Vista as both show
exactly same behavior)
Any ideas?
Thanks
e.