Windows can't create PageFile

[Joe Medford]

Every time I start a friends XP Home SP2 machine, it says that it can not
create the pagefile. I have checked the security settings of the C drive,
and it appears to be ok. have changed some of the security settings for
the page file and it did not resolve the issue.
Any ideas?
Thanks

 

[R. McCarty]

Plenty of Free Space ? - check to see if there is a pre-existing
Pagefile.Sys
that may have been orphaned. Which security software ( AV /Firewall ) is
being used. Is the drive which should have the pagefile free of error(s)>?

If the pagefile cannot be created, how did you modify security settings for
the Pagefile ?

 

[Rich Barry]

Joe, how much hard drive space is available on your friends computer?
Try rt clicking
MyComputer>select
Properties>Advanced>Performance-Settings>Advanced>Virtual
Memory>You do any changes there if necessary

 

[Joe Medford]

1- There is about 15-20G available
2- There is no Pagefile.SYS file located in the root of C: only 1 drive
letter.
3- There is NO av program currently installed, Verizon FIOS install an AV
program which has since been removed. The drive has been scanned with both
OneCare and Norton without it finding anything.
4-The drive appears to be free of errors, check disk is not finding anything
5- I booting into safe mode and brought the properties of C: and made sure
system & admin has full permission, I also booted into WinInternations, and
reset the permisions.
All did not resolve the issue.

 

[Joe Medford]

There is plenty of space availble, Intial and Max are set to 600mb, it
says current =0mb Min Allowed=2mb, Recommended 382mb.

 

[Joe Medford]

ran a registry cleaner which appears to have resolved the issue

 

[Joe Medford]

ran a registry cleaner which appears to have resolved the issue