Managing Page File Size | Allocating Virtual Memory | Improving Windows Performance
The paging file is an area on your hard disk that Windows uses like memory (RAM). Virtual memory is a memory management technique that allows the users to execute programs larger than the actual physical memory (RAM). It swaps the required pages related to a program, as per need, between RAM and hard drive. This prevents the system from going out of memory while using multiple programs or heavy process programs. We can allocate the size of virtual memory for windows. There is a setting in windows that we can tweak to either let windows automatically manage the size or we can give our customized size. Allocating a good amount of page file size can help in improving the system's performance.