re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small Monday, December 16, 2002 at 10:21 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Bernd Wechner (16 messages posted) Thanks. Not a bad reference, but not great either (as it doesn't solve my problem, but it did point me to lot of neato utilities and pages with more info). The problem stands and now I can though describe it more clearly (having learned a little more). I cannot create pagefile.sys, no matter what I try (and I've been through all the ropes in this article in any MS help file of KB article I could find and any other web page I've been able to find - they all just go through the standard system dialogs. What I need to know is, why doesn't XP create pagefile.sys on my system? It's just not there. I can see hiberfil.sys (which presumeably serves a similar role, storing my machine hibernation memory images - it's a notebook) and all the system and hidden files, but no pagefile.sys. Further, the wonderful utility pagedfrg.exe from SysInternals can't find pagefile.sys (can on other XP boxes near me). It's just not there and won't appear. I have tried setting the paging file size to 0 (to remove it) rebooting, setting it to "system managed" rebooting, still no pagefile.sys. Similarly it won't create it on my external USB drive. There is nothing in the event viewer to provide any clues. Basically I need somehow to coax out of XP the reason WHY it's not creating my pagefile.sys so I could consider a remedy. Written in response to: re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (triplate: Monday, December 16, 2002 at 6:36 pm) Responses to this message: re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (triplate: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 at 4:51 am) All messages in this thread [show all] your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Mon, Dec 16, 2002, 6:06 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (triplate: Mon, Dec 16, 2002, 6:33 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (triplate: Mon, Dec 16, 2002, 6:36 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Mon, Dec 16, 2002, 10:21 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (triplate: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 4:51 am) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 3:43 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (czyxzy: Mon, Dec 16, 2002, 11:10 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Chuck: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 4:43 am) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 3:46 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Chuck: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 8:51 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 9:15 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 3:49 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 10:04 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Wed, Dec 18, 2002, 2:38 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Thu, Jan 9, 2003, 10:49 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Mon, Jan 13, 2003, 11:11 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bob: Sun, Aug 6, 2006, 8:04 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Kevin: Fri, Dec 29, 2006, 3:58 am) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Mike De.Petris: Fri, Jan 5, 2007, 8:17 am) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Eric Goehl: Sat, Oct 20, 2007, 7:34 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Kevin: Tue, Oct 23, 2007, 12:50 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (LarryV: Mon, Jul 28, 2008, 7:23 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Rob: Tue, Dec 2, 2008, 4:37 pm) re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Mike Peters: Wed, Dec 31, 2008, 1:38 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum