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[KillerBee]

Howsoever -- nobody answered my own question. "Does a Windows-managed [swap/page]file degrade your system performance?"

Probably will only notice a difference between static and dynamic if it was located an HDD drive with severely limited free disk space as it can cause some fragmention as it shrinks and grows

 

[KernelMode]

Long answer: http://azius.com/blog/pagefile-yes1/

Well thanks for the link, but that article doesn't really answer this question. Next one, maybe...

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Probably will only notice a difference between static and dynamic if it was located an HDD drive with severely limited free disk space as it can cause some fragmention as it shrinks and grows

I've also seen mild arguments to shrink the swap/page-file if the most active disk is an SSD, and I thought I heard folks saying that pulling the sw/pg-file off the SSD was a good idea because of "too many writes."

At least the latter idea is all "chicken-little." And on an SSD, swap/page-file fragmentation is a non-problem. Fragmentation generally on an SSD is a non-problem.

 

[tidy]

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[zir_blazer]

Yup, you need to use the "Set" button for changes to take effect as far that I recall.

It is possible that you can disable the Pagefile but the pagefile.sys file doesn't get automatically deleted. However, if that is the case, you can manually delete it without issues, otherwise it would give a classical "File is in use" error. Same with the Hibernation file.