XP SP2 and Paging file error

[Saverio Tedeschi]

Hi all gurus. I've a serious problem. After having installed SP2 on my IBM
Thinkpad, 30GB (6GB free), 764MB RAM, OS is no more able to generate a valid
paging file (option leaved to "system manages"). I've double-checked
permissions for SYSTEM and ThR31Tesis\Administrators on C: drive (the only
partition on hard drive) and seen that in Policies administrators have the
right to generate the file. So I've deleted SP2, but still paging file is
NOT generated, and all I have is "Paging file not present or too small" and
often personal settings freezes till I hit Alt+TAB and reply OK, obtaining
(?) a temporary file of just 256 MB. Can someone pls help me or should I
format C: drive? I've hundreds of applications installed and re-installing
the whole environment even if possible is already a nightmare... Any clue
very appreciated! TIA

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Disable the pagefile altogether. Reboot and see if any instances of
pagefile.sys remain (you may need to set folder options to see hidden and
system files to do this). If they do, delete them. Then restart the virtual
memory and reboot once more to rebuild the file.

Also, do you have Intel Application Accelerator installed? If so, you need
to uninstall it and install the latest version. The older ones are
incompatible with WinXP and can cause this error as well.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Select my computer.Right click on it--click on properties--click on
advanced--click on settings on performance tab--click on advanced-- at the
bottom click on change under the hadding of virtual memory--click on custom
size--in intial size put 764 and in maximum size put 1146

 

[Saverio Tedeschi]

I've performed some narrowing:
trying to create (during bootstrap) paging file on another drive is not
succesfull; however, changing its name (to paging.sys) in win registry makes
it possible even on C: drive, even if each time the system is rebooted Xp
tries to make again pagefile.sys and fails. Trying to manually create a file
named pagefile.sys on C: drive is blocked (file already exists, it says, but
I'm not able to see this file even with all system files displayed in the
explorer window). It seems that there's an entry in MFT referring to a
non-existing pagefile.sys, even if scandisk sees that, or that the creation
of pagefile.sys is forbidden.

 

[Guest]

I've performed some narrowing:
trying to create (during bootstrap) paging file on another drive is not
succesfull; however, changing its name (to paging.sys) in win registry makes
it possible even on C: drive, even if each time the system is rebooted Xp
tries to make again pagefile.sys and fails. Trying to manually create a file
named pagefile.sys on C: drive is blocked (file already exists, it says, but
I'm not able to see this file even with all system files displayed in the
explorer window). It seems that there's an entry in MFT referring to a
non-existing pagefile.sys, even if scandisk sees that, or that the creation
of pagefile.sys is forbidden.

uh, i got exactly same problem...how did u solve this??