Re: ClearPageFileAtShutdown

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On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:41:32 -0500, "Jim" <j.n@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


The supposed reason for clearing the pagefile is to eliminate residual
sensitive information (such as passwords)
in the pagefile. I quite frankly see the likelihood of such items laying
around as remote.


I'm with you entirely. Even if there was any remaining sensitive
information left in the page file, finding it and accessing it would
be difficult enough that it would be very unlikely that anyone would
try.

I wonder if all these people who want to clear the page file at
shutdown ever leave their machine running while they are not sitting
at it. Whatever the risks of someone finding something sensitive in
the page file, they would be there at that time too.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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