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by xxs 615 days ago
the short answer is that you can't without the necessary permissions, and even if you do - the next roll out will wipe out your changes.

So the pro-part of the tip does not apply.

On my own machines anti-virus is one the very first things to be removed. Most of the time I'd turn off all the swap file, yet Windows doesn't overcommit and certain applications are notorious for allocating memory w/o even using it.