Disabling the page file is a career limiting move. This is a brief discussion on 'hardening' with no additional information about the threats that are being protected against other than 'hacker'. If a 'hacker' has gotten that far into my network, I have way worse issues.

What are we protecting for here?

What are the threats?

We're turning knobs and there's no discussion of change management or discussion of processes.

Number 8 I'll agree with as it will kill off Win98's but the rest? Number 9... get a firewall.

This is more like a top ten list to get yourself fired and leave a system in an unsupported state. Did we learn nothing from the "buggy patch" fiasco of MS 05-051?

Let's think about what we are doing here instead of just flipping reg keys.