Virtual memory, page file use

[GrumpyMan]

Yes that's what I meant. A temporary one. Thanks!

Edit: Which of course begs the question, if it makes a temporary one if the system goes under, they why turn it off?

 

[Nothinman]

I've always thought that it doesn't matter whether you turn off the page file in XP because it secretly makes one anyway.

I've seen it do that but I've also seen it not do that and I never took the time to figure out what conditions lead to which situation.

Just play a bit with the CreateFileMapping function. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u...y/aa366537(VS.85).aspx

That's what I was trying to avoid since my knowledge of the Win32 API is pretty thin and I don't feel like learning it.

 

[pallejr]

These memory objects are used everywhere. You can see them with a tool like process explorer. If the function would fail when no paging file is present, a lot of programs would also stop working.