You can select the drive in which the virtual memory will be created. When you select a particular drive the window will show you the free space available on that drive. In the above picture you can find that C drive is selected and the option " System managed Size " is active. If " No Paging File " option is selected then we are not using paging file in that particular drive. B:- The page file is created during the Windows installation and resides on the hard drive in which windows is installed.
Page files are measured in MB and otherwise known as virtual memory and the size of the page file is based on how much RAM is installed in the computer. By default, a page file is 1. Step Change the Virtual Memory. To set the virtual memory select the desired drive and see the recommended size and currently allocated size.
Then select " Custom size " option. You have to set the maximum size larger than the currently allocated size to increase the performance. For initial size it may be between the size of the installed RAM to currently allocated size.
NOTE:- While setting virtual memory make sure to close all the running programs. It is not mandatory to close all the programs but it is recommended. You must have administrative access to the system to change virtual memory size. More articles: Virtual Memory Windows in windows 7 Windows 7.
Thanks for sharing such useful links with screenshot. Click the 'Settings' button under the 'Performance' section to open another window. Click on the new window's 'Advanced' tab, and click 'Change' under the 'Virtual Memory' section. If you have a page file enabled on your machine, which you should by default, then Windows will dynamically adjust its size for you.
Initially, Windows will configure a page file size based on the amount of memory installed and free disk space available. If you don't run memory intensive applications such as virtual machines and production software other than games, you can shrink the page file down to a fraction of your total available RAM. You can also choose to disable paging completely, thus maximizing your space savings.
I would strongly recommend against this as it could make your system and programs crash when you unexpectedly run out of RAM. Windows 8 and earlier Taken directly from the documentation , which is the first Google result for "windows change swap space" : Open System by clicking the Start button, right-clicking Computer , and then clicking Properties. Clear the Automatically manage paging file size for all drives check box.
Windows 10 It's the same procedure, just a slightly different path to the settings dialog: Click the Start button and type "Computer" or "This PC", then right-click "This PC" in the search results, and click Properties.
Resume at step 2 above. Alternatively: Click the Start button and type "Advanced system settings", then click "View advanced system settings" in the search results. Resume at step 3 above. Or from the command line or by typing in the start menu: Run SystemPropertiesAdvanced.
Improve this answer. Jason C Jason C 9, 9 9 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 48 48 bronze badges. ThatBrazilianGuy This procedure is for Windows 8 as well. What do the "Initial size" and "maximum size" actually do in Windows?
Is there some reason to prefer one over the other, or any other specific relationship between the two? I'm familiar with swap on Unix systems but it isn't clear why, e. Since this is now the first result when binging this who uses google these days? Rich It's exactly the same, heh; you just have to type "Computer" in the start menu first. Nice edit - I suspect that "search in start" hook would work all the way back to Vista; and might even work on XP, 2k, and NT4.
Show 1 more comment. For me sysdm. Add a comment. You need to access your computer, control panel and follow procedures as shown in this way Procedures : Windows 8 Power on your machine and open all programs.
Go to Control panel and then systems and security. Go to system and then to advanced system setting. Open properties, advanced and then settings. Click change, paging file settings and follow prompts. Procedures : Others Go to advanced, settings and performance. Advanced, virtual memory and then Change.
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