Re: Page file and VM problems

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From: DFD (DFD_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:49:01 -0800

Hi RC:
Thank you for your response. I am answering each of your questions in the
text of your reply.

"R. C. White" wrote:

> Hi, Dora.
>
> Are you logged in as an Administrator of this computer? YES
If so, then go to
> System Properties | Advanced | Performance/Settings | Advanced. What do you
> see at the bottom of this screen, just above the Change button? The line
> should say "Total paging file size for all drives", and the number should be
> 1.5 times your RAM, by default.
IT SAYS 0 MB
>
> Another way to verify that you do, in fact, have a page file is to press
> Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up Task Manager, then click the Performance tab. Look
> at Total under Physical Memory; this should show the amount of RAM in your
> computer. : 261424 KB
Then look at Limit under Commit Charge; this shows the total of
> RAM and Virtual Memory. : 238552 KB
 The difference is your page file.: 42.872 MB
>
> Pagefile.sys is always created in the Root of a volume (the Boot Volume by
> default), with the Hidden and System attributes, so it doesn't appear in
> normal directory listings. The file can be created in a different volume,
> but it will always be in the Root of that volume. So, the first place to
> look in the typical WinXP is C:\pagefile.sys, and be sure you can see the
> System and Hidden files. : I DID, STILL I DO NOT SEE IT
If you have other volumes, look in the Root of
> each (D:\, E:\, etc.) I DID, NO PAGEFILE.SYS FILE

You can open a "DOS" window and use the Dir command
> with the /a switch to show All files, no matter their attributes: dir c:\
> /a : I DID, NO PAGEFILE.SYS FILE
>
> If you click on that Change button I mentioned above, you should see a page
> that shows which volume WinXP is using, and you can change your settings
> there. First, choose each volume and click No paging file and then Set.
> Then, select the volume where you want your page file to be, click System
> managed size, and Set. OK your way out and reboot, if necessary, for the
> change to take effect. I DID ALL THESE, NO SUCCESS, NO FILE.
>
> MVP Alex Nichol knows more about Virtual Memory than most of us. You can
> read his explanation at: http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php : I READ HIS ARTICLE, BUT HAVING NOT FOUND THE FILE TO DELETE IT I WAS UNABLE TO PROCEED.
>
> If this doesn't solve your problem, please post back. Tell us the make and
> model of your computer, how much RAM, how many HDs and how they are
> partitioned. MY COMPUTER IS A DELL DIMENSIONS 4400, 256 MB DDR SDRAM, PENTIUM 4 PROCESSOR AT 1.6 GHz.

Thank you (and Ken Blake for his attention)

Dora

>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@corridor.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
>
> "DFD" <DFD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:94C874C5-98DA-4FB1-99EE-BB7F303AB4B9@microsoft.com...
> >I have XP Pro. Like many in this group I do not get a page file, and
> > eventually run out of VM. This problem precedes my downloading of SP2 and
> > fixing of other problems which includes the removal of the GAOBOT worm
> > with
> > the help of the Norton antivirus. The problem started with an update
> > download
> > and the subsequent help of a MS tech representative, long ago. I have
> > tried
> > all of the solutions offered in this group, to no avail. I do not find a
> > pagefile.sys file no matter how I look for it. The only files that I have
> > are
> > pagefile.vb in C:\I386 and pagefile.vbs in several c-disk folders. The
> > only
> > place I see a reference to pagefile.sys, with whatever values I define, is
> > in
> > the register keys, local management, as a type REG_MULTI_SZ with data, for
> > instance C:\pagefile.sys 500 4000. There are several users set in my
> > computer, but mostly I am the only one using it. When I start it and the
> > screen shows the users, if I click on a user right away, there is no
> > further
> > response until I click CTL-ALT del. If I wait longer, until I see that my
> > hard disk stopped working, when I click on a user, it logs in fast but the
> > box comes up saying that there is no page file, etc. I'll appreciate any
> > advice different from what has already been written, as well as to have it
> > phrased in sort of step-by-step instructions. I am no expert.
> > Thanks a lot.
> > --
> > Dora
>
>

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