Does Windows use the content of pagefile.sys file that was kept last time running ?
Yes.
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Yes.
Hi Dejan,
Do you mean after Windows restarts, it will also use the contents of pagefile.sys left last time??
It almost always does.
To check if a memory dump was left there.
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>> Yes.
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> Hi Dejan,
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> Do you mean after Windows restarts, it will also use the contents of
> pagefile.sys left last time??
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@Dejan_Maksimovic said:
It almost always does.
To check if a memory dump was left there.
Oh , yes.
In addition to this situation,
Will it uses the content if there is not memory dump?
Not that I know of.
> @Dejan_Maksimovic said:
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> It almost always does.
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> To check if a memory dump was left there.Oh , yes.
In addition to this situation,
Will it uses the content if there is not memory dump?
weilin_jiang wrote:
In addition to this situation,
Will it uses the content if there is not memory dump?
Why do you ask? I’m not just being nosy; I suspect that your question
is coming from a line of thinking that might not lead to a Good Place,
so I’d like you to share the train of thought that led here.
It definitely does not use it. A number of years ago, I wrote a pair of drivers for a virtualization system that had its files remotely, but wanted to use a local disk for the pagefile.sys It is still in use, and does not have a problem swapping to a different machine where the old pagefile will not be accessible.
Don Burn
Windows Driver Consulting
Website: http://www.windrvr.com
In fact, you can configure Windows to wipe the pagefile after each reboot for security reasons; at the expense of a little extra time in the boot process.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\ClearPageFileAtShutdown (DWORD)
Valid values are 0 and 1. So, no, the following boot is not dependent on the pagefile contents
In fact, you can configure Windows to run WITHOUT a page file entirely…
Peter