Zenexer

Eh... yes and no. It's a little more complicated than, "you need a pagefile no matter what." In my case, it was unnecessary. Or, at least, it should've been. It was hindering performance of certain operations.

Re-enabling the pagefile appears to have resolved the issue.

I believe my issue is related to this. My computer refuses to shut down; instead, I get a black screen. If I wait long enough, eventually I'll get an error message with some hexadecimal codes and a mention of Corsair.Adapter.DisplayService.exe. I usually can't use my mouse at that point, though my keyboard still works, so I can press Enter to close the dialog. After that, nothing happens; the screen stays black. My keyboard is responsive (Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock work), but nothing I press has any effect, including Ctrl + Alt + Delete. I've attached a log file containing a large number of exceptions from iCUE. I went through the Windows event logs and found this for CLinkIntegrationService during shutdown: "Service has been successfully shut down." That appears to be before it stalls. The only Application-tier event after that before I held the power button to power it off was from User Profile Service: "The User Profile Service has stopped." The issue started when I disabled all pagefiles. I wasn't encountering this issue with a pagefile enabled, but that could be a coincidence. Service_Error.log