Policy
Enable NTFS pagefile encryption
Windows 11 25H2
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
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.
| Registry location | Type | Enabled value | Disabled value |
|---|---|---|---|
| HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Policies\NtfsEncryptPagingFile | REG_DWORD | 1 | 0 |
Policy elements
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This policy has no additional user input fields.
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