How to move new Windows 8 file swapfile.sys to another drive?

Windows 8 has a new swapping / paging file called swapfile.sys. It resides in %SystemDrive% directory, or C:\ for most users. It looks to be a swap file for Modern UI / Metro apps (source: https://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2012/10/28/windows-8-windows-server-2012-the-new-swap-file.aspx?Redirected=true).
I wanted to ask how this can be moved to other drives, the same way pagefile.sys etc can be.
After having just installed Windows 8, I am going through the process of moving files that get a lot of writes, like pagefile.sys and hiberfill.sys, to other mechanical drvies, instead of being on my SSD with it’s limited write life. There seems to be no method
of doing this for swapfile.sys.
After a search, only this tread turned up (http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_cp-performance/to-move-swapfilesys-to-another-drive/bd1d5424-e410-4742-9668-e5060a021d40?tm=1356272384010), for the same question but it as never answered. All
that was explained, was how to disable both pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys. Also how to move pagefile.sys. The question about moving swapfile.sys was never answered. Hence why I am asking again. There also seems to be no registry settings for this file, that
I could find to change, to accomplish pointing it's location elsewhere.
Am not interested into getting into a debate about whether it is worth while moving files off SSD's to save on writes.
So if someone, ideally from Microsoft, can explain how to do, with this new swap file, what had been possible with the existing page file, for a good few Windows versions it would be much appreciated. Or how it can be disabled, without disabling the normal
pagefile setup, as I don't use and don't intend Modern UI apps.

I also think this could not be moved and I could not find any document about moving it, either.
Thanks.
Nicholas Li
TechNet Community Support

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