an amount of space that windows uses as ram
an area on the hard disk that Windows uses as if it were RAM"
a system file, so it cannot be encrypted
Data that is not immediately necessary in RAM gets flushed to this file on the hard drive. (See PageFault and Paged Pool)
A hidden file on the hard disk that Windows uses to hold parts of programs and data files that do not fit in memory. The paging file and physical memory, or RAM, comprise virtual memory. Windows moves data from the paging file to memory as needed and moves data from memory to the paging file to make room for new data. Paging file is also called a swap file. See also: Peak Memory Usage; registry size limit (RSL); virtual memory