Enable NTFS pagefile encryption
- Policy ID
- EnablePagefileEncryption
- Scope
- Computer Configuration
- Supported on
- At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7
- Source
- Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2026 Update (26H2) (version 1.0)
- Category
- System › Filesystem › NTFS
Description
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.
Registry
ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- NtfsEncryptPagingFileREG_DWORD