> Does the memory managed by these functions have any special properties? That's what I'd like to read too. It's surely possible to figure that out. Obviously,

> Does the memory managed by these functions have any special properties? That's what I'd like to read too. It's surely possible to figure that out. Obviously, nothing special is promised by the description of the functions. I know that some people, long ago, even wrote their own kernel drivers to make sure some part of the memory won't end in the virtual memory on the disk. They didn't think VirtualLock gives that guarantee.