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You caught me! Yes, it only "forces" a reboot if you want the change to
happen, which is what I meant.
To re-state the issue-- it showed that the virtual memory usage WAS CHANGED
IMMEDIATELY, and did NOT give the notification of a reboot being needed to
take effect. Then didn't allow a normal boot.
Update: after posting this I tried to see if this behavior is consistent.
It's not. It changed the "Total paging file size for all drives:" message
for virtual memory a couple of times without the "reboot required" message.
And, it gave the message a couple of times.
Hint: I stopped testing after it asked one time if I wanted to "replace" a
page file that
"already existed" on a drive. That drive letter partition was just merged a
couple of days ago from two partitions. The first time I answered "no". And
it wouldn't boot. Then with No Page File on that drive, it booted OK. After
answering Yes to replace the file, it has booted OK so far. So there was
some kind of conflict in the boot files also. But that doesn't explain why
the no "reboot required for settings to take effect" message.
Have a great day!
Although you can change the values, they won't stick unless you also hit
the Set button before you exit that dialog. Maybe you changed the
values but forget to click the Set button. I've done it a few times
because intuitively you would figure that clicking OK meant to accept
the newly changed values.
If you change the size of the pagefile, you really don't want to use the
existing one. In fact, one way to defrag the pagefile is to defrag the
drive, reboot into safe mode, change the pagefile size, delete the
current pagefile, and then reboot. I suspect you already know about
trying not to defrag the pagefile because you set both Min and Max to
the same value.
I haven't bothered with SP-3. There is nothing in it when reading the
overview notes on it that is a must have or even a like-to-have feature
in SP-3. I'll wait until the first wave of fixes get released that
address SP-3, or a couple of months. Unless you're in a corporate
network, there is almost nothing of use in SP-3 to you.