a kernel panic is sometimes the right thing. "you are doing a bad thing; I quit" is a valid response in extreme circumstances. turning off the page file in Wi

a kernel panic is sometimes the right thing. "you are doing a bad thing; I quit" is a valid response in extreme circumstances. turning off the page file in Windows in 2021 is an extreme circumstance. a requirement of the kernel is that there is virtual memory space. the page file is part of what enables that on Windows. on Win 8.0 (I think) and before, the page file was nowhere nearly as vital, and you could turn it off in certain situations. an educated user could use their knowledge to know when it was ok to turn it off. new versions of Windows change many things; they are not simple reskins of previous windows versions. the kernel and low level stuff changes a lot, version to version. knowledge that was valid in Windows XP is very likely no longer valid on Windows 10 or 11, and certainly is no longer valid in all situations. keep your knowledge up to date. even things that appear to change relatively slowly, such as Windows, experience a lot of churn at lower levels. the APIs may not change, but their implementations often do.