Should I disable pagefile.sys on my ssd?

[Flameblade87]

I don't have much experience in dealing with the whole memory scene, but from what I have found on different sites says a whole mess of different opinions. My issue is that I need to free up space on my ssd and the only thing I can be rid of that I can tell was the large pagefile.sys I have, close to 16gb in size.

I have never seen my memory go above 10gb so I figured why should I bother with the pagefile.sys. My concern is from what I have read on other sites is that it is dangerous to disable it, but I myself am not seeing the danger, but as I said I am not that experienced when it comes to how memory works, so what is the best course of action?

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
SSD: SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 120GB SATA III TLC
RAM: Quad Channel CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 16GB DDR3 2400 9-11-11-31

 

[USAFRet]

Just reduce it to 1GB or so.
Some things may have issue with no pagefile, and with 16GB RAM (i have that too) it will rarely if ever get invoked.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I don't have much experience in dealing with the whole memory scene, but from what I have found on different sites says a whole mess of different opinions. My issue is that I need to free up space on my ssd and the only thing I can be rid of that I can tell was the large pagefile.sys I have, close to 16gb in size.

I have never seen my memory go above 10gb so I figured why should I bother with the pagefile.sys. My concern is from what I have read on other sites is that it is dangerous to disable it, but I myself am not seeing the danger, but as I said I am not that experienced when it comes to how memory works, so what is the best course of action?

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
SSD: SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 120GB SATA III TLC
RAM: Quad Channel CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 16GB DDR3 2400 9-11-11-31

http://www.thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/optimization-guides/the-ssd-optimization-guide-ultimate-windows-8-edition/

 

[USAFRet]

Other main thing to disable is the hibernation file.

See this:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html

 

[mikiep]

Most would tell you set your crash dumps to small and the paging file to 200 - 400 mb.
You need a paging files for crash dumps - and it wont work worth a flip if you move it to another drive.
There's a small program called 'System Crawler' that once you figure out to look for pagefileusage, will tell you what paging you are using and what you have used in a login session. Good thing to look at sometimes.
Win10 - 8gb ram, my largest I[ve noticed was about 290mb .. so i set it 330 to give some spare.

 

[Flameblade87]

I don't have much experience in dealing with the whole memory scene, but from what I have found on different sites says a whole mess of different opinions. My issue is that I need to free up space on my ssd and the only thing I can be rid of that I can tell was the large pagefile.sys I have, close to 16gb in size.

I have never seen my memory go above 10gb so I figured why should I bother with the pagefile.sys. My concern is from what I have read on other sites is that it is dangerous to disable it, but I myself am not seeing the danger, but as I said I am not that experienced when it comes to how memory works, so what is the best course of action?

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
SSD: SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 120GB SATA III TLC
RAM: Quad Channel CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 16GB DDR3 2400 9-11-11-31

http://www.thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/optimization-guides/the-ssd-optimization-guide-ultimate-windows-8-edition/

Thank you for this, I went through this guide and I actually was able to free up nearly 25gb of space.

 

[Kewlx25]

You can't fully disable the pagefile in Windows. Even when "disabled", it'll still create a 16MB file somewhere.