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Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Server General. Sign in to vote. Overall it's a very inconsistent experience, and what I wanted to do pagefile on separate drive simply does not seem possible anymore. What am I doing wrong? Any ideas what I can try to get it to work? Thanks in advance! Regards, Sander. Thursday, December 13, PM.

Microsoft have now fixed the issue with a patch:- Microsoft support just let me know that the issue has been addressed in KB Friday, January 25, AM. Sander, I am running into the exact same problem. Hi, First of all, thanks for thinking along. Submit ». SW-Desperado This person is a verified professional.

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There are many factors, like the OS, hypervisor, if you use swap at all, how the swap is set, how mobile your systems are, if you are on public or private and so forth. It is best to simply understand the factors and figure out what is best for your situation.

Scott Alan Miller wrote: xbliss wrote: I was looking into this as well, and cant seem to find an agreed Consensus. We do this for all standalone and clustered Hyper-V setups. This topic has been locked by an administrator and is no longer open for commenting.

Set the maximum size to 3 times your total RAM amount. Follow the steps above to add a custom amount that you want if the automatic amounts are too high. Out of all the various reasons you want to change your page file amount, achieving something that works well might involve some trial and error.

But in my experience, the system default has worked fine in most cases. So consider carefully the reason you might have for changing it.