Your System Has No Paging File

[compnut]

I am getting this error:

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

whenever i boot up.

a fellow tek tip member gave me this link:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;315270

to try which i did try before with no luck. I am afraid something got very corrupt, but I am willing to try anything before using the recovery CD.

 

[bcastner]

This error message can be due to:

. NTFS folder permission issues. The link you cite above is an example of this concern. See also:

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

. Flat out wrong settings. Set your page file settings to allow Windows to manage them

. Pagefile.sys corruption. Set MIN and MAX to 0. Save the settings, and ignore all the yelling XP will do. Then set to let Windows manage the pagefile.

Some other thoughts and utilities can be found in Dan Petri's article:

http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

and Alex Nichol's classic:

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

Best,
Bill Castner

 

[compnut]

thank you. I will try these out tomorrow. I appreciate the help.