>>1488534if you don't use hibernation then disable it and the hiberfile will be gone
>pagefilefor the love of God no.
unless you have over 64GB of RAM then you absolutely need the pagefile.
>>1488575this anon is right about what the pagefile is and what it does, he's completely wrong about removing it or making it smaller.
you need to understand the following: the operating system knows what it's doing, every one of them no matter if it's windows, linux, mac or whatever. if it doesn't need to do something then 90% of the time it stops doing it on its own. it knows what processes it needs, when it needs them and how to handle memory.
if you remove the pagefile in windows or the swap in linux, and you don't have enough RAM to handle everything all the time, shit starts crashing, loading times increase significantly.
>system knows you use X, Y and Z programs during active hours>system keeps them cached and properly stored in pagefile, next time you open one of them it pulls the cache from pagefile and loads it into RAM, making your computer feel more responsive while also offloading part of current RAM to pagefile, keeping a good chunk of it free and ready to go >system stores memory you don't necessary need right now, but you'll need 1minute from now when you switch tasks, making sure nothing crashesnow if you remove pagefile and your system has nowhere to keep cached RAM, it doesn't keep it.
>you open X, Y or Z program, it takes long time to load because there's no cache waiting on demand >you open your browser and load 5 tabs, system knows it needs more memory and starts freeing up RAM for the sake of the active process with highest priority(browser)>you switch tasks, system can't jump on to task X, Y or Z because it removed them from memory, it has to spin them up again >can't just spin most shit up again without cache, X,Y or Z crash tldr: don't tamper with things you don't understand before you google them and learn what happens when you do
