Policy

Enable NTFS pagefile encryption

Encrypting the page file prevents malicious users from reading data that has been paged to disk, but also adds processing overhead for filesystem operations. Enabling this setting will cause the page files to be encrypted.

Policy
PackMicrosoft Windows
CategorySystem / Filesystem / NTFS
Policy IDd1c5f61b3859
Internal nameEnablePagefileEncryption

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Policies\NtfsEncryptPagingFile (enabled) = 1
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Policies\NtfsEncryptPagingFile (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

Encrypting the page file prevents malicious users from reading data that has been paged to disk, but also adds processing overhead for filesystem operations. Enabling this setting will cause the page files to be encrypted.

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Do not allow compression on all NTFS volumesDo not allow encryption on all NTFS volumesEnable / disable TXF deprecated featuresEnable NTFS non-paged pool usageNTFS default tierNTFS parallel flush thresholdNTFS parallel flush worker threads