How to change swap file location in windows 7

Thanks for your feedback. I have a very small SSD install disk but a much larger internal disk. Windows allowed me to move libraries to the larger disk. How do I move my virtual disk or swapfile. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 1. Report abuse. Go to Start Settings Control Panel. Double-click the System icon and choose Performance. Take note of the current minimum and maximum values of the swap file.

Set the initial size and maximum size to 0. Click Set. Select the drive where you wish to place the swap file. In the Initial Size text box, enter the minimum value from the original swap file.

In the Maximum Size text box, enter at least the maximum value from the original swap file. In the Start Menu search box, type "Advanced System Settings" and choose the Control Panel applet that should show up, "View advanced system settings". Uncheck "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" and you can change these settings. Highlight the drive you want it on, and select either a fixed size or system managed size, and then click "Set". Do the same to remove it from the drive you don't want it on.

If you want to completely remove the pagefile from your system drive, you will need one extra step to Shinrai and mtone's answers. As a comment by paradroid mentions, Windows requires to have a pagefile present on your system drive in order to write kernel memory dumps in the event of a crash. So even if you set "No pagefile" on your system drive, Windows will end up creating a pagefile anyway, even if it doesn't actually use it for paging. Trying to delete this pagefile will show it to be in use.

In order to work around this, you have to disable kernel memory dumps, which is also done by going through the advanced system settings. In the dialogue box that comes up, under the "System failure" section, and the "Write debugging information" subsection, change the drop down menu to " none ". After this, you should be able to delete the pagefile. This could vary, but Windows will tell you if you set it under the recommended size.

I recommend researching a bit for anyone who plans on changing paging file settings on a system where lost work could be critical. I noticed that several people may be misinterpreting the Windows recommendation and statements.

The fact is, as someone had said early in the topic , you can improve your systems performance by moving the Page File to a different physical drive. I've recently added another 1 TB HDD and have now moved the Page file to the new 1TB drive thereby making it just that much easier on the entire process. The point is to keep the Page File partition but move it to a drive that doesn't have to run often.

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Learn more. How can I move the page file to another physical disk location? Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 11 months ago. Active 6 years, 6 months ago. Viewed k times. I'm looking for a concise answer on how to move the page file. Improve this question.