What is a Swap file
A “Swap file”, “paging file” or “Virtual Memory” refers to storage space on hard drives that Windows allocates for itself and other applications to use when actual physical memory (RAM) is no longer available.
Windows generates a file (pagefile.sys in XP for example) and reserves storage space.
With ...
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