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It is the memory paging file that is used to manage virtual memory in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. When you don't have enough hardware RAM, the operating system can page (map) data to and from the hard drive in the file that it designates "pagefile.sys" in the root of the main OS logical drive (typically drive C). This is typically slower than transfers to and from actual RAM.

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