{"id":1316,"date":"2012-05-31T12:11:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2015-08-17T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T03:57:07","slug":"setting-a-fixed-size-paging-file-in-windows-2008r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"Setting a fixed size paging file in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Open system properties by right-clicking &#8220;Computer&#8221; from the start-menu<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-open-sys-properties.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1317\" title=\"win2008-open-sys-properties\" src=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-open-sys-properties-300x267.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-open-sys-properties-300x267.png 300w, http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-open-sys-properties.png 567w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Open &#8220;Advanced System Settings&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-sys-open-adv-settings.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1318\" title=\"win2008-sys-open-adv-settings\" src=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-sys-open-adv-settings-300x133.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-sys-open-adv-settings-300x133.png 300w, http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-sys-open-adv-settings.png 845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Click the &#8220;Advanced&#8221; tab, then under &#8220;Performance&#8221;, click the &#8220;Settings&#8221; button<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-open-sys-adv-perf.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1319\" title=\"win2008-open-sys-adv-perf\" src=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-open-sys-adv-perf-266x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-open-sys-adv-perf-266x300.png 266w, http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-open-sys-adv-perf.png 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>In &#8220;Performance Options&#8221;, click the &#8220;Advanced&#8221; tab, then click the &#8220;Change&#8230;&#8221; button, which will take you to the virtual memory settings<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-pagingfile.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1320\" title=\"win2008-pagingfile\" src=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-pagingfile-300x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-pagingfile-300x210.png 300w, http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-pagingfile.png 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>In virtual memory settings, <strong>untick <\/strong>&#8220;automatically manage paging file size for all drives&#8221;, then set the paging file to an appropriate drive and <strong>set the INITIAL and MAXIMUM paging file to the SAME custom size, using the recommended size value.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click &#8220;Set&#8221;, then OK back to the &#8220;Performance options&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-pagingfile-set.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1321\" title=\"win2008-pagingfile-set\" src=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-pagingfile-set-300x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-pagingfile-set-300x210.png 300w, http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/win2008-pagingfile-set.png 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>OK out of everything, rebooting when prompted by Windows<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open system properties by right-clicking &#8220;Computer&#8221; from the start-menu Open &#8220;Advanced System Settings&#8221; Click the &#8220;Advanced&#8221; tab, then under &#8220;Performance&#8221;, click the &#8220;Settings&#8221; button In &#8220;Performance Options&#8221;, click the &#8220;Advanced&#8221; tab, then click the &#8220;Change&#8230;&#8221; button, which will take you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/?p=1316\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[146,147,148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}