Control Panel Virtual Memory: Pagefile settings on C do not "stick" but revert to System Managed def

[Uncle John]

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?

 

[Guest]

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]

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