RE: Unable to login to clear pagefile.sys problem

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From: Jason Hall [MSFT] (v-jashal_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/06/04


Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 17:08:04 GMT


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>From: "Steve" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
>Sender: "Steve" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
>Subject: Unable to login to clear pagefile.sys problem
>Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 08:44:21 -0700
>Any suggestions to the following predicament. I'm Running
>W2k Sp4 and when I login as Administrator I get a message
>advising my pagefile is missing or too small. I click Ok,
>then instead of continuing to log me in and allowing me to
>attempt to resolve, I'm taken back to the login screen.
>
>I tried adding my hard my drive to another system and
>creating a pagefile then retrying back in my computer. I
>also tried setting the pagefile to 0, tried deleting both
>my pagefile and temppf.sys from within Recovery Console.
>Tried adding the SYSTEM group and making sure Everyone had
>access. Temppf.sys keeps getting recreated and I can't get
>logged in to run regedt32 to change the location of my
>pagefile.
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Boot into the Recovery Console and replace the SYSTEM hive with the
automatic backup

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