Hi Ron,
You do realize that this is a hidden file, if not: go to Windows
Explorer/Tools/Folder Options/View. Show Hidden System Files and do not
Hide Protected Files.
If this is not the case: Information by Alex
It may sometimes happen that the system give 'out of memory' messages on
trying to load a program, or give a message about Virtual memory space being
low. Possible causes of this are:
The setting for Maximum Size of the page file is too low, or there is not
enough disk space free to expand it to that size.
The page file has become corrupt, possibly at a bad shutdown. In the Virtual
Memory settings, set to "No page file," then exit System Properties, shut
down the machine, and reboot. Delete PAGEFILE.SYS (on each drive, if more
than just C
, set the page file up again and reboot to bring it into use.
The page file has been put on a different drive without leaving a minimal
amount on C:.
There is trouble with third party software. In particular, if the message
happens at shutdown, suspect a problem with Symantec's Norton Live update,
for which there is a fix. If the problem happens at boot and the machine
has an Intel chipset, the message may be caused by an early version (before
version 2.1) of Intel's "Application Accelerator." Uninstall this and then
get an up-to-date version from Intel's site.
Possibly there is trouble with the drivers for IDE hard disks; in Device
Manager, remove the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers (main controller) and reboot
for Plug and Play to start over.
With an NTFS file system, the permissions for the page file's drive's root
directory must give "Full Control" to SYSTEM. If not, there is likely to be
a message at boot that the system is "unable to create a page file."
Thanks Kelly
I have tried a few suggestions given and noticed your
interest in a few other subjects so i clicked on your
keey-korner link and tried your suggestions from. Hope
you didn't mind. The short of it all is that the pagefile
just will not present itself hence the computer does not
have a file pagefile.sys and no matter what I try I
cannot make it happen.
I thought your website was great and very helpful for
lots of other matters - well done
Regards
Ron
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Hi Ron,
Am assuming you tried these notes, as I don't recall giving these
instructions in the past few days here:
Pagefile too small or Missing
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Sessi on Manager\Memory
Management
PagingFiles - To change the mininum and maximum values, change the 0's to
the Min and Max values you want. Example: C:\Pagefile.sys 766 1024
You will also need to make this change in the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\ControlSet001, ControlSet002 and ControlSet003
branches, if they exist.
If you are having issues for different
partitions/drives, then the MS way is
