Change / Move Pagefile location

Written by Administrator

Saturday, 23 January 2010 11:24

Very short post, just for my better reference :)
To change the location of the page file using registry change following:

Key Name: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\

Value Name: PagingFiles

Type: REG_MULT_SZ

Data: C:\pagefile.sys 150 500

With the Data parameters you control page file location and its size (the above shows dynamical page file from 150 MB to 500MB. But you can set it co constant size by setting same values to the key ie: 1024 102)

You can of course set there several page files, enter each pagefile path and size to separate row of the key:

c:\pagefile.sys 3000 4000
d:\pagefile2\pagefile.sys 3000 3000
e:\pagefile3\temp\Pagefile.sys 3000 14000

Cheers KbNk;