page file - virtual memory problem

[Henry]

My xp crashed somehow and I could not even boot to last working
configuration
it froze just before the login screen
so I reinstalled xp but I chose the (R) repair installation

after installation the pc started ultra slow I checked the startup
applications from msconfig
there is only a few no addware or spyware
also when I logged in my documents and desktop icons was not the old ones
(/documents and settings/my username/my documents) but the installation
created a new location : (/documents and settings/temp/my documents)

so I tried to create a new user and planed to move all my files to the new
created account but when I created a new user it gave me an error no virtual
memory - pagefile allocated 0

I set the pagefile to system managed size and rebooted
this took like 10 minutes to reboot but when I logged in as a new created
user it gave me the same error message no virtual memory
I checked the properties and the currently allocated size is 0

is there a way to fix this installation or should I just back up the files
somehow and delete the whole partition and reinstall windows

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following article by Alex Nichol:

"Virtual Memory in Windows XP"
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

 

[Henry]

thanks

also any ideas why is my documents folder displaced after the installation