What is the Windows Virtual Memory (page file) and what does it do?
The Windows Virtual memory is a place allocated on your hard drive (usually somewhere in the middle of the free space) that windows stores extra data from your RAM banks when that data isn;t being immediately used but may be needed in the near future. By default this file is not static and can grow or shrink within certain system-set limits. On most systems this is absolutely critical to system performance, but on higher end machiens with large memory banks it can actually slow the system up.
The Windows Virtual memory is a place allocated on your hard drive (usually somewhere in the middle of the free space) that windows stores extra data from your RAM banks when that data isn;t being immediately used but may be needed in the near future. By default this file is not static and can grow or shrink within certain system-set limits. On most systems this is absolutely critical to system performance, but on higher end machiens with large memory banks it can actually slow the system up.
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