Pagefile.sys is a 'file' generated/used by W2K (NT) as 'virtual' memory; that part of the drive behaves as though it was RAM... When physical RAM is fully used and there is need for more, infomation/data not currently being accessed can be 'swaped' to that location and thus free physical RAM for immediate use. That same data can be transferred back if need be into physical RAM at any time. If the Page-file (Swap-file) is being overly accessed/used then one would normally add extra RAM; extra RAM is the simplest way (usually the cheapest too) to improve overall performance of a given system.
Without some area so defined (on the hard-drive) W2K (and also NT XP) will not run properly, especially when running applications that demand/use large areas of RAM. Size (and location) can be set by default or as you prefer. So it is not wise to remove it completely under normal circumstances.
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