Enable NTFS non-paged pool usage

Policy ID
NtfsForceNonPagedPoolAllocation
Scope
Computer Configuration
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
Source
Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2026 Update (26H2) (version 1.0)
Category
System › Filesystem › NTFS

Description

By default NTFS allocates memory from both pageable and non-pageable memory as needed. Enabling this setting tells NTFS to use non-pageable memory for all allocations. NTFS also changes all of its code sections to be non-pageable.

The benefit of enabling this feature is a reduction in page-faults and stack usage at the cost of additional memory consumption.

A reboot is required for this setting to take effect

Registry

ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
  • NtfsForceNonPagedPoolAllocationREG_DWORD

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