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Comment by 0x1d7

This is almost always a bad idea.

If no memory is available where a page file would make a difference, this leads to application crashes instead. A crash is (usually) worse than paging.

Certain applications, Photoshop being the historical example, will outright fail to run with no page file present.

parent 0x1d7 4 months ago

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