Comments on: Clear Swap File on Shutdown http://www.pcmech.com/article/clear-swap-file-on-shutdown/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:43:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Lood Kazaz http://www.pcmech.com/article/clear-swap-file-on-shutdown/comment-page-1/#comment-32763 Lood Kazaz Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:09:37 +0000 417664084#comment-32763 Thanks for the post. This will benefit more if we need to use the same HDD for back up while not using it as OS Drive. i.e. I have 3 hard drive for my laptop. each one has completely different data and operating system. One of them that has winXP carry all my files on another partition and I would not use this HDD all the time so I do nor need ro waste 1 or 2 GB caused by Swap files. Thanks for the post.

This will benefit more if we need to use the same HDD for back up while not using it as OS Drive. i.e. I have 3 hard drive for my laptop. each one has completely different data and operating system. One of them that has winXP carry all my files on another partition and I would not use this HDD all the time so I do nor need ro waste 1 or 2 GB caused by Swap files.

]]> By: Larry Miller http://www.pcmech.com/article/clear-swap-file-on-shutdown/comment-page-1/#comment-17963 Larry Miller Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:51:13 +0000 417664084#comment-17963 The risks of not doing this are more theoretical than real. It is possible to obtain access to confidential data this way but it is not easy. There are usually other ways which require less effort. This might be useful in a highly secure environment but only as part of a comprehensive security policy. By itself it will provide little security. Note that this does not delete the pagefile but overwrites every byte with zero's. There are NO performance benefits in doing this. Larry Miller Microsoft MCSA The risks of not doing this are more theoretical than real. It is possible to obtain access to confidential data this way but it is not easy. There are usually other ways which require less effort. This might be useful in a highly secure environment but only as part of a comprehensive security policy. By itself it will provide little security.

Note that this does not delete the pagefile but overwrites every byte with zero’s. There are NO performance benefits in doing this.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

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