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Hello I got quite a problem for my windows
My Local Disk C is suddenly really full and the i downloaded windirstat
and i found that the pagefile.sys is really big
is it okay to delete that ?
or do you know what maybe caused the problem .. that made my local disk C is always full
I used my laptop mostly to design
using Autodesk Application, Sketchup, Photoshop and Illustrator
then today my scratch disk are suddenly full that I cant open anything at my photoshop at all
This is my laptop:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version 10.0.16299 Build 16299
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name S-PC
System Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
System Model GL502VMK
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz, 2808 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. GL502VMK.300, 12/27/2016
SMBIOS Version 3.0
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
BaseBoard Model Not Available
BaseBoard Name Base Board
Platform Role Mobile
Secure Boot State On
PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.16299.248"
User Name S-PC\Samuel Immanuel
Time Zone Malay Peninsula Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 15.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 10.1 GB
Total Virtual Memory 22.2 GB
Available Virtual Memory 14.9 GB
Page File Space 6.25 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Device Encryption Support Elevation Required to View
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes
Thanks
Best Regards,
Samuel
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Do this
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\System
or right click This PC icon on desktop
advanced system settings
advanced tab
performance-settings
advanced
virtual memory/pagefile>.change
then tell me what the current allocated is, total being used is
You do not want to disable this. You can reduce the size, but lets see what it is set to.
I realize that deleting the pagefile will cause big problems to the OS.
what i mean is reading the article carefully and MOVE the file to another drive
thanks
Why didn't you say that then? What you said was ...i think you can safelydelete the pagefile.sys.
Please just allow the OP to respond without further confusing things, thank you.
Here you can choose the other drive and assign it and set the size.
People with answers or questions with question but not how to locate it or do it. lol
Dear Jim
Hi there
Oh ya I forgot
It is quite small - 118 gb
but as i recall I dont really put to much things on my local disk C
Thanks
Sam
That is small. Do you have any other drives or partitions available? The paging file can be movedto a different drive or partition. Could you open Disk Management (Windows key + x) , take a screenshot and post it here?
You've given us everything except the relevant information: What is the size of the hard drive or system partition?
