Virutal Memory

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André Gulliksen said:
You are wrong. Try typing 'dir /a /tc pagefile.sys.' The /tc is for
displaying _creation_ date, rather than last modified date. Most likely you
will discover that this file is older than your last reboot. In other words:
pagefile.sys is _not_ recreated at boot.
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You are the one that is wrong. as 'Most Likely' often is if not checked.
See for example Explorer, r-click the file - Properties. It shows time
of last boot
 
Mine is the last date I set it, which was may last year. Which is exactly what I expected to see. It is only created if it doesn't exist. Dunno what happens on a system managed PF or SF as I've never had one
 
Alex said:
You are the one that is wrong. as 'Most Likely' often is if not
checked.
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I did not understand this sentence. What did you mean?
See for example Explorer, r-click the file - Properties. It
shows time of last boot
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Mine shows created 12. dec 2004 20:09:26, modified 9. jan 2005 16:21:03,
accessed 9. jan 2005 16:21:03. hiberfil.sys has similar properties.
 
David said:
Mine is the last date I set it, which was may last year. Which is
exactly what I expected to see. It is only created if it doesn't
exist. Dunno what happens on a system managed PF or SF as I've never
had one
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I just set mine to system managed and rebooted, just to check. The file did
not get deleted at shutdown, and after a reboot the creation date is still
december last year.
 
I can think of other tests that would need to be run before conclusively concluding that (what happen if it grows big etc, what about clearing it on shutdown etc) but AFAIK windows leaves a swap alone and has since Win 3.1 at least.
 
David said:
I can think of other tests that would need to be run before conclusively concluding that (what happen if it grows big etc, what about clearing it on shutdown etc) but AFAIK windows leaves a swap alone and has since Win 3.1 at least.
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Sorry - I was too hasty and looking at 'modified' which is what is set
at boot, as the file gets started over
 
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