pagefilewindows server 2012
How do i access the dialog that lets me set pagefile settings in Windows Server 2012?
In Windows 7, i would
And there's the options.
How do i do it in Windows Server 2012?
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It's not a bug, it's a feature! To set input language of the login screen open the control panel "Control Panel > Clock, Language, and Region > Language". Click at the link Advanced settings. Set the Windows display language and input method as you want it. Then click at the link Apply language settings to the welcome screen etc. Click at the button Copy settings. Click at the checkbox Copy settings to Welcome screen and system accounts. Click OK. Close all windows. Log out.
Windows may not have deleted the old pagefile.sys. Try to :
If the setting for the page-file is reset by some program, you could try using Process Monitor to do Boot time logging of all registry changes in order to identify the program that changes it. Just remember that this slows the boot process a lot.
The page-file settings are found in the registry at
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\.
The value involved might be PagingFiles, but you can easily check which one
by changing the Virtual Memory settings between System managed and Custom and
refreshing the display in regedit to see what changed.
With this information you can set up a filter in Process Monitor and identify the process that changes that value in the registry.
The page file is used chiefly for swapping-out programs when the RAM is full. Its use for the dump is only incidental - a convenient place for Windows to put crash data. Its size therefore should be at least as large as your RAM. You should verify if Windows does not allocate a larger file when the specified allocation is too small, which seems to me a reasonable built-in safeguard for Windows to employ.
Remark: If you have another drive in addition to the SSD, you could move the page file there so as not to reduce it too much.
Another remark: Modern SSDs are rated for many gigabytes per day for up to a decade, so you really should have no fear of some 32 MB reducing the life-time of your disk. SSD longevity is no longer an issue unless the SSD is old or of low quality.
For example, a test by AnandTech came up with the following results :
If for example the daily usage is only 5 GB written, the above lifespan should be multiplied by a factor of two. A modern SSD should last for the lifetime of the computer.
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Here is a list of all the control panel shortcuts for Server 2012: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/control-panel-applets-and-command-line-launch-options-for-windows-8-and-windows-server-2012/
The swap file settings are still under ControlPanel > System, apparently, and set very much like in earlier versions, if you want other than system-managed settings.
Here are details for setting the size, if you need them (I'm not including these at this point, as you probably don't need the detail): http://blogs.technet.com/b/danstolts/archive/2013/01/07/how_2d00_to_2d00_change_2d00_the_2d00_size_2d00_of_2d00_virtual_2d00_memory_2d00_pagefile_2d00_sys_2d00_on_2d00_windows_2d00_8_2d00_or_2d00_windows_2d00_server_2d00_2012.aspx
Win+X brings up the Power User menu; you can get it several other ways, including right-clicking on the Start button (I wonder why they still call it that?) or the bottom-left corner of the screen, depending on whether you have 8 or 8.1