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My experience on an i4790k machine with 8 GB RAM after "upgrading" to Win 10: Chrome tabs tend to get swapped out to SSD quite quickly. Re-opening those tabs takes a few seconds now, compared to instantly before. Am pondering adding another 8 GB for a total of 16 to see if it helps...
Today 8GB of ram is a minimum for web browsing, unfortunately :(
Is memory shortage really a problem these days? Frankly, if you have like 12-16GB of RAM, which is realistic even for notebooks, and you don't have 200 browser tabs open or work on very special tasks, you'll never fill that RAM. In fact, I've been running Windows 7 with paging disabled (no pagefile to lessen SSD wear. Turns out that was not necessary since you'd have to page astronomic amounts to wear it noticeably)…
You should never disable the page file, no matter how much physical memory you have. Just set it to system managed and it will usuyally sit around 1-2Gb usage.
For explanations as to why you shouldn't disable it;
https://superuser.com/questions/810170/should-i-disable-swap...
https://serverfault.com/questions/23621/any-benefit-or-detri...
http://www.howtogeek.com/126430/htg-explains-what-is-the-win...
The way windows handles virtual memory hasn't changed much up to Windows 7. Windows 10 changes it up a bit but you still shouldn't be disabling it completely.