How to Remove Pagefile.sys on Hard Disk

I have a problem with my laptop, in drive C has grew up without reason. I tried to find all folders but didn’t see big file or folder. I have wondered why my hard drive is growing up like this. Then I found the cause of this issued. This problem is happened by has pagefile.sys in drive C. What is pagefile.sys? Pagefile.sys is the “Virtual Memory” or “Swap Space” that it come from RAM when not currently begin used. I never delete this file, now its size is 8GB. To solves this issued we can reduce its size or don’t allow to have this file in hard disk.


Please see the solution below:

Right Click Computer => Properties => Advanced system settings => Advanced Tab


In Performance panel => Click Setting => Click Advanced Tab => Click Change… button


Uncheck on Automatically manage paging file size for all drives option.
Then chose Custom size then you need to set size for manage paging file.
If you don’t want to have paging file please chose No paging file.
After you set the paging file size, click OK and restart computer. You will see in drive C has more space. 

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