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1. HOW TO WIPE CLEAN REGISTRY WINDOWS 10 HOW TO
2. HOW TO WIPE CLEAN REGISTRY WINDOWS 10 WINDOWS 10
3. HOW TO WIPE CLEAN REGISTRY WINDOWS 10 PRO

We’ve created two downloadable registry hacks that do the work for you.

HOW TO WIPE CLEAN REGISTRY WINDOWS 10 HOW TO

RELATED: How to Make Your Own Windows Registry Hacks If you want Windows to stop clearing the page file at shutdown, return here, double-click the ClearPageFileAtShutdown setting, and set it back to “0”. You can now close the Registry Editor window. If you don’t, right-click the “Memory Management” key in the left pane, select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value, and enter “ClearPageFileAtShutdown” as the name.ĭouble-click the ClearPageFileAtShutdown value, set enter “1” in the value data box, and press Enter. You should see a “ClearPageFileAtShutdown” setting in the right pane. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management Use the left sidebar to navigate to the following key. RELATED: Learning to Use the Registry Editor Like a Proįirst, open the Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R, typing “regedit” into the Run dialog that appears, and pressing Enter. And definitely back up the Registry (and your computer!) before making changes.

That said, if you’ve never worked with it before, consider reading about how to use the Registry Editor before you get started. This is a pretty simple hack and as long as you stick to the instructions, you shouldn’t have any problems. Standard warning: Registry Editor is a powerful tool and misusing it can render your system unstable or even inoperable.

HOW TO WIPE CLEAN REGISTRY WINDOWS 10 PRO

(If you have Pro or Enterprise, though, we recommend using the easier Group Policy Editor, as described in the next section.) You can also do it this way if you have Windows Pro or Enterprise, but just feel more comfortable working in the Registry as opposed to Group Policy Editor. If you have a Home edition of Windows, you will have to edit the Windows registry to make these changes. Home Users: Erase the Page File on Shutdown with the Registry Editor But, if you store your page file on an unencrypted drive, or if an organization uses thin-client systems, this option can be useful. More importantly, encryption also prevents attackers from looking at all the other files on your hard drive. That means no one can pull the drive and attempt to examine the page file without having your encryption key.

If your page file is stored on an encrypted drive, you don’t have to wipe it each time you shut down-the page file will be encrypted, too. Rather than rely on clearing your page file, we recommend setting up full-disk encryption on your Windows PC, if possible.

HOW TO WIPE CLEAN REGISTRY WINDOWS 10 WINDOWS 10

RELATED: How to Enable Full-Disk Encryption on Windows 10 It’s a trade-off, and one most people wouldn’t want. This is why Windows doesn’t automatically clear the page file at shutdown by default.

It depends on how fast your computer’s hard drive is and how large your page file is. Your shutdown time may go from a few seconds to a few minutes, or even longer. It will make your computer take much longer to shut down. There’s a real downside to enabling this feature. If someone pulls the hard drive from your computer, they can’t inspect the page file to find any potentially sensitive data that may have been stored in memory. It does this by writing 0’s to every bit of the page file, overwriting any existing data.

If you’re worried about someone snooping for sensitive data that may be left in your page file, Windows can erase it each time you shut down. When you shut down your computer, the system’s RAM is always erased-it’s erased whenever it loses power. RELATED: What Is the Windows Page File, and Should You Disable It?