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11-03-2004, 09:58 PM
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xp refuses to resize pagefile
Hey everyone,
I'm running XP Home edition, service pack 2, and i REALLY need more memory-and i'm too cheap to buy more RAM. I've went and expanded the pagefile size using the "set" option in the advanced performance section of System Manager-and when i rebooted the settings were unchanged! I also tried altering pagefile.sys in the registry and it still didn't change!! Why? WHY? WHY?? |
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11-04-2004, 06:10 AM
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Ride 'em Cowboy
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What size/numbers are you setting it too?
Have you tried "System Managed" |
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11-04-2004, 07:59 AM
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Set it to Zero, reboot in SAFE MODE, set it to what you want, make certain you have enough HD space for the paging size you want, reboot in normal.
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11-04-2004, 08:58 PM
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I tried System Managed, and the pagefile didn't even resize-and when i rebooted the option had reset to Custom.
I tried resizing it from within safe mode, and it actually worked (whereas it didn't even change in normal mode). However, when i rebooted the blasted thing had changed back again!!!! The problem seems to be that no matter what i do xp undoes it as soon as i reboot. Perhaps there's some clue in the fact that it listens to me in safe mode, and only in safe mode? |
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11-04-2004, 09:05 PM
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When i go into the virtual memory screen it actually acknowledges that the pagefile for C: (my only hard drive) is at 1500Mb, but the section on the bottom of that screen, "total paging file size for all drives" doesn't change, except in Safe Mode.
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11-05-2004, 11:11 AM
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How much physical ram DO you have? How big is the hard drive, and how much free space does it have?
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11-09-2004, 02:41 AM
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i've got 256Mb of RAM and a 40Gb hard drive with about 8Gb still free
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11-09-2004, 09:48 AM
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80% full hard drive - and I bet it's also heavily fragmented - this is asking for issues. Defrag it a few times and see what happens. When free space gets down to 15%, defrag won't run any more, that's how close you are.
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