On 23 Jan 2009, at 21:10, Paul Hartman wrote:
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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.
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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.
I don't know why I said "from memory" before, I was surely just making
the assumption.
ISTM a bit daft, under Windows, to zero out the pagefile. If you have
physical access to the computer, most anything in the swapfile will be
available elsewhere on the hard-drive anyway. About the only thing you
*might* get out of it is passwords, but that's not something for a
very amateur hacker.
I guess writing the whole routine to (free up swap memory, check the
registry for this setting &) zero the swapfile not to have been a mere
5 minute job. How hard would it have been to add an option _just_ to
delete it? This just requires freeing the inode, is surely less work,
and would have been more useful to far more people. *sigh* Microsoft.
Stroller.
