I have read Alex Nichol's long article on this subject again but it does
not throw any light on my
problem. I have 4 GM DDR RAM seen by windows as 3.5 GB so I only need a
small page file, however;

1 If I set the page file to any size in C Windows loads it the default
System Managed size of 3.5 GB.
2 If I set it in another drive on another disk, say E:\, it loads to the
size I have chosen of 1 GB.
3 If I then add a second small page file in C for error reporting purposes -
2min/200max MB - it appears thus in Control Panel and in the Registry
Current control Set after a reboot, but there is in fact no pagefile.sys in
C while that 1 GB file is still present in E.

I have left the settings in Control panel 2 -200 MB for C and 1000 MB for E
and in practice, as indicated above, I have no page file in C and cannot get
memory dumps, not important to me.

It does seem that something in the load process causes this because if I do
the whole process above working in Safe Mode the two pagefiles are correctly
created. At one time in the past (September 2004) I traced this fault to
Norton Antivirus
Autoprotect being on and interfering with the loading of the OS kernel. I
do not have Symantec products now but Zone Alarm Security Suite, which has
an autoprotect module.

Does any one have any further suggestions?
--
Uncle John

In properties,page file,after you make the adjustments,click set 2X for each
adjustment,after close out.Who is A nichols...Try reading kb 99768 or kb
314482
or read kb 555223

"Uncle John" wrote:

> I have read Alex Nichol's long article on this subject again but it does
> not throw any light on my
> problem. I have 4 GM DDR RAM seen by windows as 3.5 GB so I only need a
> small page file, however;
>
> 1 If I set the page file to any size in C Windows loads it the default
> System Managed size of 3.5 GB.
> 2 If I set it in another drive on another disk, say E:\, it loads to the
> size I have chosen of 1 GB.
> 3 If I then add a second small page file in C for error reporting purposes -
> 2min/200max MB - it appears thus in Control Panel and in the Registry
> Current control Set after a reboot, but there is in fact no pagefile.sys in
> C while that 1 GB file is still present in E.
>
> I have left the settings in Control panel 2 -200 MB for C and 1000 MB for E
> and in practice, as indicated above, I have no page file in C and cannot get
> memory dumps, not important to me.
>
> It does seem that something in the load process causes this because if I do
> the whole process above working in Safe Mode the two pagefiles are correctly
> created. At one time in the past (September 2004) I traced this fault to
> Norton Antivirus
> Autoprotect being on and interfering with the loading of the OS kernel. I
> do not have Symantec products now but Zone Alarm Security Suite, which has
> an autoprotect module.
>
> Does any one have any further suggestions?
> --
> Uncle John
>
>
>

Andrew,

Thanks but it makes no difference how many times I click "Set".

However if I boot in Safe Mode the pagefile is loaded correctly and in
agreement with the Control Panel settings.

Alex Nichol was a an excellent MVP who had a web site full of helpful
articles and a very long one on Virtual memory which seems now to have been
picked up in the Elder geek Forum

--
Uncle John
"Andrew E." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:90AE36C4-3F38-43B8-A47F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> In properties,page file,after you make the adjustments,click set 2X for
> each
> adjustment,after close out.Who is A nichols...Try reading kb 99768 or kb
> 314482
> or read kb 555223
>
> "Uncle John" wrote:
>
>> I have read Alex Nichol's long article on this subject again but it does
>> not throw any light on my
>> problem. I have 4 GM DDR RAM seen by windows as 3.5 GB so I only need a
>> small page file, however;
>>
>> 1 If I set the page file to any size in C Windows loads it the default
>> System Managed size of 3.5 GB.
>> 2 If I set it in another drive on another disk, say E:\, it loads to the
>> size I have chosen of 1 GB.
>> 3 If I then add a second small page file in C for error reporting
>> purposes -
>> 2min/200max MB - it appears thus in Control Panel and in the Registry
>> Current control Set after a reboot, but there is in fact no pagefile.sys
>> in
>> C while that 1 GB file is still present in E.
>>
>> I have left the settings in Control panel 2 -200 MB for C and 1000 MB for
>> E
>> and in practice, as indicated above, I have no page file in C and cannot
>> get
>> memory dumps, not important to me.
>>
>> It does seem that something in the load process causes this because if I
>> do
>> the whole process above working in Safe Mode the two pagefiles are
>> correctly
>> created. At one time in the past (September 2004) I traced this fault to
>> Norton Antivirus
>> Autoprotect being on and interfering with the loading of the OS kernel.
>> I
>> do not have Symantec products now but Zone Alarm Security Suite, which
>> has
>> an autoprotect module.
>>
>> Does any one have any further suggestions?
>> --
>> Uncle John
>>
>>
>>