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I don't agree to letting windows decide for itself. It's clearly incapeable of making that decision. If you have so much space on your SSD that you don't know what to do with it, sure, let Windows hog it all. But windows doesn't need it, so why enable it?

The pagefile problem is as old as windows it self. In windows 3.1 (yeah, I'm going there) the pagefile was used purely as an extention of the XMS/EMS memory. If you had a system with limited RAM, this gave you a way to use programs that needed more RAM than you actually had installed.

Right now with windows 7 that is still the primary function of the pagefile, but now with a few additions.
Regardless of how much RAM you actually have, Windows will use part of your harddrive to simulate even more RAM. If you have a normal HDD harddrive, this is the thing that slows down your computer the most. The Windows pagefile is the number one performance bottleneck in modern PC's today. Especially if your PC has a budget (slow) harddrive. Windows will disregard the (fast) RAM you have installed and choose to use the much slower harddrive instead. It's silly.

I have 16GB of lightning fast RAM installed, yet Windows wants to use the pagefile on the harddrive, or SSD in my case.
A small comparison: my SSD can move up to 550MB/s if the stars align, but normally does about 300MB/s. My RAM will move in excess of 20GB/s any time, all of the time. That's the same difference in speed between walking pace, and an F1 car maxed out on a straight.
And if you don't have an SSD, but a mechanical HDD, the difference in speed is even larger. It'll be crawling vs. a maxed out F1 car.
Windows 7 actually recommends me to allocate 24 gigabytes of my SSD for the pagefile. With the RAM, that totals 40GB of actual RAM + simulated RAM. There's no way I'll do that. Windows doesn't need it, it will never use that much, all it does is slow the PC down. Yet Windows will by standard hog a large portion of the SSD/HDD just because it can.

Going back to windows 3.1 as an example, I used to disable the pagefile alltogether on that. This forced windows to actually use the RAM, what RAM is supposed to be used for. That's why you have RAM in the first place. And it gave a boost in performance because you cut out the slow HDD from the process.

Windows 7 however is terminally hooked, it can not live and breathe without a pagefile. The absolute minimum is 16MB, and it warns you not to go under 800MB.
So here's what I do: (meaning, there's no reason for you to do it too, unless you choose to do so. Make up your own mind.)
I set the minimum size for the pagefile to 800MB. Set the maximum to 4096MB (which is plenty for ANY system). Windows had set it to around 17GB before, it now 'idles' just above 800MB.
I also disable the hibernation function because I don't use it. When I don't use my PC I switch it off, like you should. That allows me to disable the hibernation function, which removes the 16GB hibernation page file from the root directory. I just freed up 32GB of space on my SSD for something actually usefull.

I'm sorry if I'm being overly critical. Windows 7 pro is my OS of choice, but that doesn't mean I can't critisize it's shortcomings. Like I said, the pagefile problem is as old as windows itself, and in the past 22 years that I've been using windows nothing has changed in regards of this problem. I think 22 years justifies this little rant that nobody will read or heed anyways.