Querying Win32_PageFileSetting results in empty response

Question

I am trying to query some information from Win32_PageFileSetting WMI class and I am unable to gather any kind of information.

I tried on multiple versions of PowerShell including:

• Major 5, Minor 1, Build 22621, Revision 4249
• Major 5, Minor 1, Build 19041, Revision 5007
• Major 5, Minor 1, Build 14393, Revision 7254
• Major 5, Minor 1, Build 20348, Revision 2400
• Major 5, Minor 1, Build 26100, Revision 1591

The version that it worked is:

• Major 5, Minor 1, Build 17763, Revision 6414

All of the commands were executed with administrative permissions.

I've included -Property * option as well, tried storing it inside a variable, after checking it with Get-Member it results in null error.

Querying with WQL results in empty response as well.

When executed from WMIC it results into No instance(s) available. The systems have page files.

Currently tried on multiple devices: From Server 2016 to Server 2025, Windows 10 and 11.

Is anyone else aware of this issue?

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is relevant, but is the pagefile automatically managed, or is it being managed by setting specific values?

If it's automatically managed I don't think you'll get anything from the Win32_PageFileSetting class.

You can check the state of the page file like this:

$computer = Get-WmiObject Win32_computersystem -EnableAllPrivileges
$computer.AutomaticManagedPagefile