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Enable NTFS non-paged pool usage

Supported on: At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10

Registry

HKLM System\CurrentControlSet\Policies

Value name: NtfsForceNonPagedPoolAllocation

Enabled: NtfsForceNonPagedPoolAllocation = 1

Disabled: NtfsForceNonPagedPoolAllocation = 0

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