Data in Virtual Memory?

[funglam]

I borrowed from my colleague a notebook computer for 14 days during official trip in India (now the notebook is in India).

I just come back and pop up something in my mind.

I used this computer to process a "VERY VERY CONFIDENTIAL" document in the first day of the trip (origin data stored in my external hard drive). In the following 13 days, I utilized this notebook computer to watch 9 different DVD and browse internet (6 hours per day).

I am not sure if his computer would auto-delete the data in virtual memory after reboot.

IF NOT,

1.Will my document still exist in his computer (virtual memory)?

2. Has my usage of computer (i.e. watching DVD and browsing internet) already overwritten my confidential document in virtual memory?

3. Is "ALL" the data in virtual memory "first-in-first-out"? i.e. the existing information in virtual memory MUST be utimately overwritten by new-coming data when the computer keeps on being used ( That is a blessing for me).

Thank you for your help.

[patio]

Your document is gone in theory.

A simple reboot will accomplish this next time.

[Salmon Trout]

1. Virtual memory = page file. Unless you delete it at shutdown, data held in it is ***not*** guaranteed to vanish at next boot.
2. Maybe, maybe not.
3. No.

[patio]

I'm thinking he does not know the difference between virtual memory and what's stored in RAM...there was where my answer was based.

[Salmon Trout]

I'm thinking he does not know the difference between virtual memory and what's stored in RAM

A very good point.