Clear The Page File On Shutdown

This setting may or may not improve yoursystem’s performance (it depends on yourusage patterns), but it does provide reliefto the paranoid. Your Windows swap filemay contain unencrypted text, includingpasswords, that could be exploited byinterested parties. To delete the file whenyou shut down your system, you’ll find asetting under Computer Configuration >Windows Settings > Security Settings >Local Policies > Security Options called“Shutdown: Clear virtual memorypagefile”. Double-click this, select Enabledand click OK. Your shutdown time willincrease marginally, though.