Pagefile problems...

[Guest]

Hi..

I'm having a problem with my pagefile as Windows seems to be ignoring my
settngs for it's location.

I have set the pagefile to 1536-3072mb's and to live on the D drive. The
settings appear to work and everything looks ok but after rebooting a
pagefile reappears on the C drive...I have used process explorer to kill the
handly and remove the PF but it just keeps coming back...even though the
settings and the registry show that no pagefile exists on the C drive???

I have also try resetting the PF to C, rebooting then setting it again to D
then rebooting...the pagefile appears as normal on D but one is also created
on the D drive??

Please, please, please can someone tell me how I can permanently remove the
PF from my C drive?

Thanks thanks

Nivk

 

[Rock]

Hi..

I'm having a problem with my pagefile as Windows seems to be ignoring my
settngs for it's location.

I have set the pagefile to 1536-3072mb's and to live on the D drive. The
settings appear to work and everything looks ok but after rebooting a
pagefile reappears on the C drive...I have used process explorer to kill the
handly and remove the PF but it just keeps coming back...even though the
settings and the registry show that no pagefile exists on the C drive???

I have also try resetting the PF to C, rebooting then setting it again to D
then rebooting...the pagefile appears as normal on D but one is also created
on the D drive??

Please, please, please can someone tell me how I can permanently remove the
PF from my C drive?

Thanks thanks

Nivk

As you have discovered, XP will often times create a pagefile on the C
drive even when the main one is on another drive. Don't worry about it.
It won't be used. Set it to a fixed, small amount - about 50-100mb -
and leave it. See this article by the late Alex Nichol, MVP for a
discussion of virtual memory and the pagefile:

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

U need PF of 100MB 4 sys dump on C.

Put rest on D

Remember the SET button!!

HTH-Larry

Hi..

I'm having a problem with my pagefile as Windows seems to be ignoring my
settngs for it's location.

I have set the pagefile to 1536-3072mb's and to live on the D drive. The
settings appear to work and everything looks ok but after rebooting a
pagefile reappears on the C drive...I have used process explorer to kill the
handly and remove the PF but it just keeps coming back...even though the
settings and the registry show that no pagefile exists on the C drive???

I have also try resetting the PF to C, rebooting then setting it again to D
then rebooting...the pagefile appears as normal on D but one is also created
on the D drive??

Please, please, please can someone tell me how I can permanently remove the
PF from my C drive?

Thanks thanks

Nivk

Any advise given is my attempt to show appreciation for all
the excellent help I've received here but I'm no MVP so it
may only apply NUGS (Normally, Usually, Generally, Sometimes

 

[Jonny]

Hi..

I'm having a problem with my pagefile as Windows seems to be ignoring my
settngs for it's location.

I have set the pagefile to 1536-3072mb's and to live on the D drive. The
settings appear to work and everything looks ok but after rebooting a
pagefile reappears on the C drive...I have used process explorer to kill
the
handly and remove the PF but it just keeps coming back...even though the
settings and the registry show that no pagefile exists on the C drive???

I have also try resetting the PF to C, rebooting then setting it again to
D
then rebooting...the pagefile appears as normal on D but one is also
created
on the D drive??

Please, please, please can someone tell me how I can permanently remove
the
PF from my C drive?

Thanks thanks

Nivk

My experience with moving the swapfile is similar. After moving to another
physical hard drive, and verifying swapfile not assigned to C:, still
appears on C:. Had me flustered for few days. Then I realized that the
pagefile.sys file on C: was simply not being used, and windows let me delete
it via windows explorer. It never reappeared after that on C:.
No apparent problems either. XP w/SP2 and concurrent updates installed.
1GB RAM, single user. Windows handles swapfile size.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply Rock, I have tried setting it to a low amount but it
just comes back as a 1.5GB file, the only time it changes is when I set it to
a bigger amount and it'll happily take up the space

The weird thing is that the C drive PF is being used instead of the D
drive..I have used Doug Knox's Page File Monitor to verify this. Also, I am
able to delete the D drive PF but not the C drive which kinda confirms the
system is using the file.

Something is screwed somewhere as in the PF settings box, i'm told there is
over 8GB's of space on the C drive to create a PF with but in 'My Computer'
only 7GB's show as free space due to the 1.5GB PF there.

Any other suggestions would be cool...thanks again

Nick

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the advice Larry....previously I never used to have a page file at
the root of my C drive as it used to have no problems running from D.

Also, I never forget the SET button...have been there before

 

[Guest]

Hi Jonny..thanks for the suggestion but I can't delete the PF on C as it's
locked by System. Can easily delete the D drive PF though but that's the one
I want to keep and is listed as the only PF in the settings box and the
registry. Seems so weird....

Anyway, thanks again

 

[Jonny]

Also, after I assumed I changed the location of the swapfile, later, found
that there was swapfile on C: continuing to function. Swapfile had
defaulted to 768MB. Had to go in a remove C: as a location. That's when it
ceased to function on C:, and the swapfile was deletable at that time after
reboot.

 

[Guest]

Doesn't seem to matter what I do with the settings for the pagefile, Windows
is just ignoring me

Anyway, I have found a fix for it.....I deleted the partition I wanted to
use for the pagefile then created the partition again...since rebooting, all
has been well so my pc lives to see another day

Thanks for the suggestions everyone

 

[Jonny]

Was the partition deleted on the same hard drive?