pagefile.sys missing 1

[vicbear13]

Error Message: Your System Has No Paging File, or the Paging File Is Too Small

I am receiving this on boot. Safe mode and normal. Pagefile size can be changed in control panel but the system will not allocate it. It is set to 384 /1152...but it reflects 0 allocated. I have checked perms and all ok. Checked registry and it reflect the current settings. Plenty of drive space. Even changed the path for the pagefile in the regisrty but the system still wont create one. I just dont have a pagefile....anywhere. I have read MS bullitins, all the ones here and still nothing. I have tried a system repair....no good.

The only recent development was (this is my daughters PC) my daughter had a cable modem installed and the cable co. turned off the firewall and failed to restart it. I was thinking spyware or something changed a system setting so the pagefile cannot be changed. Have scanned with adaware and norton and they didnt detect anything.

How can I get the system to create one again? Can this be spyware?

System Info:
1.2GHz
256 RAM
One partition

vicbear13

 

[bcastner]

If you logon as the local administrator account and set the pagefile size it will be allocated unless the inbuilt account SYSTEM has been removed from the NTFS rights to the drive.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;259151

 

[pweegar]

I found the following from a google search, which may be helpful to you:

Pagefile too small or Missing
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Run regedt32 and go to the following location:

Hkey_local_machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

There you will find these entries:

PagingFiles:Reg_Multi_SZ:C:\pagefile.sys 190 380


TempPageFile:Reg_Dword:0x1

If the PagingFiles: entry is populated, delete the entire TempPageFile entry then reboot.

 

[vicbear13]

bcastner: I have tried allocating the size as the admin but that is the problem. Something is restricting the system from making the change. The SYSTEM account is still there.

pweegar: I will try that. I did see that entry but wasnt paying attention to the setting. I am not at the PC now but I will check later.

Thanx guys. Any other input would be outstanding

 

[bcastner]

Let me steal a chunk of a response from member gpalmer711 on a different topic:

<snip>

1. Download and install subinacl from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-

93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en

2. Create a file named reset.cmd in C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools folder.

3. Edit the reset.cmd file with the following content.
[tt]
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=system=f
[/tt]
4. Enter into CMD prompt.

5. Enter the following commands one at a time and click Enter.

cd\
cd "C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"
reset.cmd

6. After a few minutes by processing subinacl, please test the problem
again.

 

[vicbear13]

bcastner,

Unfortunately this is a home system and I dont have resource kit on it...plus the link is no good. What does this fix do by the way? It looks like it sets or changes the perms fos admin and system.

thanks though

vicbear13

 

[bcastner]

My apoligies. You can download and install the resource kit if I get the link right this time:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

As to what it fixes:

There is clearly an issue with the SYSTEM account, one that you have little control about creating. It is lacking some key permissions. If in my earlier link you made certain that SYSTEM had full disk right permissions, then the only other thing likely lacking is registry permissions.

The subinacls script above addresses this issue. Reboot after running the new .CMD file scripting.

 

[vicbear13]

bcastner:

I tried something else first...I changed the temp pagefile in the registry to 0 and also ran tht Intel Acclerator patch and it took care of the problem. Only I did both brfore rebooting so im not sure which did the trick and frankly at this point I dont care.

Thankx for all the help

vicbear13

 

[bcastner]

vicbear13,

A very interesting approach to the issue. Thank you for reporting back.

Flipping the page values to 0, or declaring you want no pagefile is a good idea, but as my guess the Intel Application Accelerator was the issue.

I sincerely appreciate the feedback.

Best Holiday Wishes,
Bill Castner