Clear Pagefile on Shutdown
When NT shuts down, it leaves the pagefile intact on the hard drive. Some programs may
store sensitive information in clear text format in memory (which in turn may be paged
out to disk). You may wish to empty this file for security reasons, or to help speed a boot
time defrag, or because you dual boot, and you don't want to share the file, or just as part
of troubleshooting a problem. Making the following registry change (or create the
following entry) will clear your page file when rebooting.
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
Name: ClearPageFileAtShutdown
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1
well friends if u getting problem to find out this key than don't worry....copy the blue word n pest on notepad and save it with .reg ext.
it will create a program now u have to open this program it will install automatically
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Clearing the pagefile on shutdown has NO performance advantages. This does not delete the pagefile but completely overwrites the contents with zero's. Boot time defragging will not be improved in any way.
In a highly secure environment this may be of value as a security measure. But this makes sense only as part of a well thought out security policy. There are many other ways to obtain access to sensitive files and most require less effort. For the average home user it makes no sense.
Clearing the pagefile will add considerably to shutdown times.
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