re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 10:49 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Bernd Wechner (16 messages posted) I have made some more progress. Still a mystery. I see no pagefile.sys in the Windows explorer. I have "show hidden files and folders" set and "Hide protected operating system files (recommended)" not set. Like this I can see pagefile.sys on another box. Yet, if I try to follow the instructions in: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;255205 to delete the pagefile the response to "copy boot.ini pagefile.sys" is "Access denied". I downloaded a diskexplorer and examined the MFT and sure enough, there's a pagefile.sys in the MFT! I can't edit the MFT alas, have no software to do such a raw disk edit. I'd like to rename pagefile.sys to pagefile.sos maybe to see if it shows up. Short of that analysing the MFT entry is a lot of work. I can see from the MFT entry that it is in the root directory, and that it has the DOS attributes ash (archive, system, hidden). Watching the MFT entry while the computer is running, I notice sometimes it seems to carry a $50 security descriptor, other times not, mostly not. What possible reasons could there be, for a file to be in the MFT like this, and obstinately invisible and innaccessible to even the procedures outlined in the knowledge base article above? Written in response to: re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 at 2:38 pm) Responses to this message: re: your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small (Bernd Wechner: Monday, January 13, 2003 at 11:11 pm) 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