On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > On 23 Jan 2009, at 17:09, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> ... >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834 >> >> There is a registry setting in Windows to "clear" the pagefile.sys at >> shutdown. What does "clear" mean? To overwrite with 0? To delete? I >> don't know. > > From memory it's just to delete it, which is perfect. > > It would take too long to zero it out - I don't think that's the purpose. > Instead, I think, it should prevent swapfile fragmentation - making it a > very good general-purpose setting to enable. > > What would be really idea for the OP is some kind of grub setting & a bash > script that formats the partition to the appropriate format for the o/s > being booted. But you'd have to be clever about it to avoid long boot times. > > Stroller.
After further googling, it appears it *does* fill the pagefile.sys with zeros, and adds a significant delay to windows shutdown times. So it won't do anything for the OP in this case.
