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