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Phil Rabichow
I have WinXP Pro SR-2, a 75Gig drive, with the vast majority free, & 512MB
RAM. I can't get my pagefile.sys to stay. I had it set for months at
1532MB. 3 months ago I rebooted & got a message that Windows created a
temporary pagefile because mine was missing or too small.
I went to Control Panel/System/Advanced tab/Performance
Settings/Advanced/Virtual memory. Sure enough it was gone. I set my
pagefile & rebooted a dozen times, regularly, safe mode. In between, I
tried to set changes. I used 0, system managed, & custom. Didn't matter.
In Safe Mode, the pagefile was there, but upon regular reboot, it
disappeared. Then the problem went away (the pagefile.sys stuck). Now the
issue has come back again.
Additionally, I tried an offline defrag when it came back at 766MB
temporarilly. After the defrag with Perfect Disk, it said my pagefile had
over 10,000 excess fragments. So I deleted it & tried setting it again. I
cannot get it to stick.
Sometimes, after setting it, I'd get the message that it would take effect
after rebooting. Othertimes, I got no message. I cannot figure out what's
causing it or how to set it. Any ideas?
BTW, I readhttp://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm regarding virtual memory, but
trying to set the pagefile size at 100MB, just produced the message that
Windows created a temporary pagefile (which I could never find using search)
etc.
RAM. I can't get my pagefile.sys to stay. I had it set for months at
1532MB. 3 months ago I rebooted & got a message that Windows created a
temporary pagefile because mine was missing or too small.
I went to Control Panel/System/Advanced tab/Performance
Settings/Advanced/Virtual memory. Sure enough it was gone. I set my
pagefile & rebooted a dozen times, regularly, safe mode. In between, I
tried to set changes. I used 0, system managed, & custom. Didn't matter.
In Safe Mode, the pagefile was there, but upon regular reboot, it
disappeared. Then the problem went away (the pagefile.sys stuck). Now the
issue has come back again.
Additionally, I tried an offline defrag when it came back at 766MB
temporarilly. After the defrag with Perfect Disk, it said my pagefile had
over 10,000 excess fragments. So I deleted it & tried setting it again. I
cannot get it to stick.
Sometimes, after setting it, I'd get the message that it would take effect
after rebooting. Othertimes, I got no message. I cannot figure out what's
causing it or how to set it. Any ideas?
BTW, I readhttp://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm regarding virtual memory, but
trying to set the pagefile size at 100MB, just produced the message that
Windows created a temporary pagefile (which I could never find using search)
etc.