A disk file used by Windows for its virtual memory. A virtual memory system temporarily stores segments of the application on disk when there is not enough memory to hold all the programs called for.
The swap file in Windows NT, 2000 and XP is PAGEFILE.SYS, the size of which can be adjusted in the system control panel.
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