re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small
Tuesday, December 17, 2002 at 4:51 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by triplate
(4621 messages posted)
For what its worth, i have NO pagefile on this machine and it runs perfectly.....but,
i only use it for surfing etc....no games, just a few utilities...Xp will create
a pagefile when and if it needs to anyway....no help to your prob,just FYI.
On Monday, December 16, 2002 at 10:21 pm, Bernd Wechner wrote:
>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.
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