Move page file on server

Finally, I can I be sure that windows will be Pagefile in D after the change? As per your screen print, I will select C drive, select No paging file and Set to delet the paging file on C. But I can I set my other page file which is on D to automatic? Should I select the tick box" Automatically manage paging file size for all drivers" or leave this tick box unckecked.

If you want to put the pagefile on D:, you need to configure it manually. Please check the guide. After the reboot, the system will create a pagefile automatically on the drive you specified.

You can't create another pagefiles in D, without unchecking the "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives". It remains uncheck if you don't check it again. Now which I don't know. After deleting the pagefile in C, how can I tell my windows R2 to use the pagefile on D for performance automatically.

Sorry to hijack this old thread but I am experiencing a similar issue so I dare to comment in the same post. Do you think not following the system recommended settings can hurt the Server by any means and I should always follow what system recommends? At the moment I have allocated the less space as recommended. Secondly I read in another blog that I always leave some space on C drive for pagefile for emergency use. Or I can have it on D: only and shouldn't care about C: pagefile allocation for emergency use?

So this puzzles me, because when I set it to a different drive, the actual pagefile. Do you have a separate procedure for moving the file? Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Server TechCenter.

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Neally This person is a verified professional. AFAIK you have to delete the pagefile and create a new one in the new location not tested to be aware of that Powershell. Dashrender Feb 12, at UTC. You might be able to use the GUI applet. RDP into the server or visit the server console run Text. Dashrender wrote: You might be able to use the GUI applet.

Neally wrote: AFAIK you have to delete the pagefile and create a new one in the new location not tested to be aware of that Powershell. However, the reason to configure the page file size hasn't changed. It has always been about supporting a system crash dump, if it's necessary, or extending the system commit limit, if it's necessary.

For example, when a lot of physical memory is installed, a page file might not be required to back the system commit charge during peak usage. The available physical memory alone might be large enough to do this. However, a page file or a dedicated dump file might still be required to back a system crash dump. Page files extend how much "committed memory" also known as "virtual memory" is used to store modified data.

The system commit memory limit is the sum of physical memory and all page files combined. It represents the maximum system-committed memory also known as the "system commit charge" that the system can support. The system commit charge is the total committed or "promised" memory of all committed virtual memory in the system.