How to clean up page files when WinXP shuts down

When WinXP is shut down, some page files are also saved in the system and will not be erased. So, how can I make WinXP automatically clear the system's page file when it shuts down? Today Xiaobian tells everyone how to solve this problem.

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Operation Steps:

1. Click on the “Start” menu, click “Run” and click on the dialog box. Enter “Regedit”, then click “OK", run “Registry Editor”. If you are not familiar with the registry knowledge, you can look at it here.

2. Navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory Management", then double-click “ClearPageFileAtShutdown” in the list on the right.

3, in the pop-up "Edit DWORD" value dialog box, select the base is hexadecimal, and the left side of the "value data" is changed to 1, this enables automatic shutdown Clean up the page file feature.

4, restart the computer for the changes to take effect.

This is how WinXP automatically cleans up junk files when it is shut down. However, users should note that when WinXP is enabled, it will slow down the shutdown.