Paging file problems
 

I'm having a problem with Windows' paging file. I stumbled on the paging file properties page, and while I made no changes to it whatsoever, when I navigated away from the page it complained something, I don't remember what precisely. So I tried to adjust the settings so that Windows would be happy, and have tried so repeatedly, with no luck. It wants me to reboot, and I do, but once it starts Windows again it complains something about there not being a sufficient page file.

My partitions are as follows:
C is a small 800 mb partition that contains FreeDOS.
D is the Windows Server 2003 system partition, 18 GB total, 15 free.
E is a data partition, 30 GB.
F is another data partition, small.

Any advice at all would be great, I usually don't mess with these settings at all. I've selected to allow Windows to determine the settings for all drives but it still isn't happy. It's almost as if it just won't take the settings.

Someone suggested that I set only the E drive (data drive) to have a paging file, of the fixed size of 2.5 times the amount of my physical memory. And disable paging for all other drives. This did not help either. I've tried different combos. Whenever I reboot the system, the paging file's size is zero.

Any help at all would be appreciated.

What I've done is make a partition of 1GB just for the pagefile and remove all others. It's worked evey time for me.

I might consider that, but I don't see how it would help in this case. That is, I don't see how a new partition would help instead of the ones that already exist.

Does anyone know of any software that could recreate/verify the page file settings, or something? This is unbearable, the computer's slow as fuck. And I just reinstalled the OS three days ago. I really don't want to do it all over again now.

Okay. I've did a little reading.

As for the system not recognizing the page file at all, I found this here:
http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

The way I understand it. If there are seperate drives then the page file should be on a different drive than the OS. It should be 2.5 times the size of the physical amount of RAM. If there are multiple non-system file drives you can split the page file to increase performance even further.

Since you don't mention more than one drive just partitions, I would either create a seperate partition for the page file by itself and defrag it or slap the pagefile on E: at 2.5 times the physical RAM solely to avoid fragmentation. I don't think you'll notice any significant performance change since it's still on the same physical drive. Taking the article into consideration, I would leave a small page file on the system partition.

If the system still won't retain the right settings, this is at the end of the article....

along with this, but it's messing with the registry....
If you're looking to monitor the page file, the windows task manager will do it for XP. perfmon.msc in the command box will bring up the system monitor where you can add the page file snap-in.

Here's a link explaining that: http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/e...s/03june16.asp

Good luck. :)

Thanks for your suggestions and help, both of you.

After much Googl'ing it turned out that the Intel Application Accelerator I was using can cause this - since the version I was using was 1.x, and this problem has been experienced when using anything below version 2.1.

Uninstalled Intel Application Accelerator, rebooted....and now it works just fine. Weird.

Crap!

I was just discussing the problem with a friend who knows a lot more about this stuff than me. He mentioned this and led me here (for those interested)

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;316528

What an odd problem....I would've never have guessed that.

Oh well. Just more useless accumulation. :)