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I know completely disabling the swapfile is not a good idea, so i'd like just to minimize its usage, so that the memory pages will be swapped only when the physical memory is completely full.

I know this old registry setting to force the kernel in RAM, but what about the user apps?

EDIT: Recent PCs have a lot of RAM (>=8GB) and also have SSDs that dislikes frequent writes. Also i think unnecessary/strategic swapping slows down the system.

The Linux kernel has a nice configurable swappiness parameter, is there something similar on Windows?

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Update to Windows 10, here Windows compresses RAM that was not used for a longer time and instead of paging it to the page file on disk, it stores the compressed memory inside the SYSTEM process.

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This reduces paging dramatically and is what you want.

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