Thinkpad laptop started with 4gig RAM and just Windows 7. Added Windows 10. Then I added 8gig. Windows 7 pagefile is 12gig. Windows 10 page file is under 2gig. Why this enormous difference? Can I do something about Windows 7 huge pagefile? It annoys me because if I forget to exclude it from image, images get silly big. What should I look at to see if that 12gig is really needed? Any suggestions for changes? Whatever I do has to be safe because I do not have a play-sandbox machine.
Here is a link to quick instructions how to set up pagefile size: http://www.mcci.com/mcci-v5/support/howtos4.html. If I were in your situation I would limit it to 1 or 2 GB. Regarding your image - what software are you using to create them? Macrium doesn't store whole pagefile in image, but I don't know how it is with others.
Thanks. I am looking at those. Acronis here. Using bootable rescue because their recent GUI is so dreadful that I find it unuseable. If I had it installed, pagefile copy would be automatically suppressed.
Thank you, Minimalist, for this good and clear link. I set it min=2g, max=4g just in case. So far Windows 7 hasn't complained. There's a link in the article which says to be mindful of the kernel dump size, but it doesn't suggest any way to estimate that nor the size of a whole memory dump. That's why I've set things higher than your suggestion.
