Policy

Enable NTFS pagefile encryption

Microsoft Windows

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Enable NTFS pagefile encryption
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
System > Filesystem > NTFS
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016

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.

Internal name
EnablePagefileEncryption
Policy ID
d1c5f61b3859
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
System\CurrentControlSet\Policies
Value name
NtfsEncryptPagingFile
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
System\CurrentControlSet\Policies
Value name
NtfsEncryptPagingFile
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

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