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Can I Delete Swapfile.sys in Windows 10?

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In Windows 8.1/10 in the root directory of the system

drive (by default it is C:\) in addition to already familiar
to many users pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys, you can
find swapfile.sys file, which was not present in earlier
versions of the Windows OS. You will be able to see it
if you will enable option Show hidden file, folders
and drives and disable Hide protected operating
system files (Recommended) in the settings of File
Explorer. Swapfile.sys is something similar to a swap
file pagefile.sys, but it is used as a virtual memory for
temporary storing data of universal applications (Metro
Store apps). In this article we will take a closer look on
whether its possible to delete Swapfile.sys in Windows
10.

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 Can You Delete Swapfile.sys?
In case some Modern-application is not used, it will be suspended and moved to swapfile.sys, in order to not
to take up too much space in RAM and retrieve when Metro-style app is resumed by the user. There is no
much of official information about swapfile.sys, but if we will take a look on the comments of Microsoft
employees, a separate page file was required due to the specific architecture of universal applications. And
two separate paging files simplify the job for application developers.

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With similar objectives the pagefile and swapfile file in Windows 10, however, is different from each other by
minimum requirements for disk space, a read/write processes, the ability to dynamically expand etc.

Many people wonder whether it is possible and how to delete swapfile.sys? Generally, you can do this, but it is
not recommended, especially because of its control mechanisms are closely related to the main page file. And
the meaning of its removal is almost there, even on small SSD-drives volume. Swapfile.sys maximum size is
typically less than 256 MB, so there is almost nothing to save in case it will be removed.

Swapfile.sys file is controlled by Windows only together with pagefile.sys. If you disable the paging file for the
volume, you will disable swapfile.sys too.

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 Note. You can disable swapfile.sys, but it is strongly not recommended and if you have any issues with the
system performance after that, it is necessary to revert the changes.

How to delete swapfile.sys in Windows 10?

1. Press Win+X and select Control Panel

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 2. Select System -> Advanced system settings

3. On the Advanced tab in the section Performance press Settings button

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 4. Switch to the Advanced tab and press Change

5. Uncheck the checkbox Automatically manage paging file size for all drives
6. Select drive you want to remove swapfile.sys and pagingfile.sys and choose No Paging File

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 7. Press Set and OK to save changes;
8. Reboot your Windows.

After the system boot, files Pagefile.sys and Swapfile.sys are removed from the root of the system drive.

During the work on this article, we found another great way to delete swapfile.sys while preserving
Pagefile.sys. To do this:

Run Regedit.exe;
Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Memory Management;
Create a new DWORD 32-bit value with the name SwapfileControl and set it to 0;

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 Reboot your PC and check if the file swapfile.sys was deleted and pagefile.sys still exist.

Tip. Another way to do this is to use the following PowerShell command:

New-ItemProperty -Path “HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management”

How to Move swapfile.sys to Another Drive

There is a little trick, that allows you to move file swapfile.sys to another drive. This allows, for example, to
extend SSD life due to transfer swap files on a mechanical hard drive.

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 1. Disable paging file as described above
2. Run this Administrators privileges mklink c:\\swapfile.sys k:\\swapfile.sys – where K: – the drive letter
on which you want to move the file
3. Enable paging

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