Re: MISSING PAGEFILE.SYS FILE

Hello, George...

Thanks for riding along.

Agree that there's a permissions problem. Have gone into properties for the
c:\ root and killed all permission groups except Everyone Group and System.
Am still not getting apagefile.sys file created. I can make changes all day
long in the GUI or registry, and they'll save, but no file is created. No
pagefile.sys exists, although boot.ini does reside in the c:\ root.

All permission options are checked for both Everyone and System.

BTW, have uninstalled and reinstalled Norton AV 2005. Am having a problem
there with Liveupdatehandling properly.

Am beginning to wonder if I have a partial SP-2 installation problem. I'm
running out of things to do to allow Windows to write the pagefile.sys.

Blake


"George Hester" wrote:

The issue is a NTFS Permissions problem. You still should have a 25MB
pagefile.sys somewhere most likely in C:\Windows but it should be on the
root C:.

You had said this, "[I] Believe all permissions are properly set for both
the Administrator and my own user account..." There should be nothing more
or less than the Everyone Group having Full NTFS permssions on the root C:
And you must set those permissions using the Admin account. Is your
boot.ini also on the root C:?

--

George Hester
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"Blake" <blaketexas(no_spam)@aol.com> wrote in message
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"Everyone" is set for full permission. All settings are continuing to
register (I can see them on the virtual memory page accessed by using
control
sysdm.cpl or going to the Registry and viewing the setting under "Memory
Management") But no pagefile.sys is apparently being created.

I can't believe I'm the only person who has followed all the directions
and
not been able to get pagefile to work <G!>.

I started to install SP2 and believe I stopped it before it actually
installed (got cold feet about the quality of my backup at the time).
Could
this be a part of the problem? Seems likely not.

Interestingly, I also cannot rollback and use any previous restore
point --
that was one of my earlier attempts at solving the problem. The system
says
it can't be done and that no changes have been made.

"George Hester" wrote:

The article says this at the end:

However, the Everyone group includes the System account. Removing the
Everyone group without adding the System account as an individual
account
renders the paging file unusable

You need to make sure that Everyone has FULL permissions on the Root of
the
drive where pagefile.sys resides. Everyone does not mean everyone in
the
world. What it means is Everyone that has permissions to log into the
system. Set the NTFS permissions on the Root to haveFULL permissions and
do
not reset the permissions to propagate to all subfolders subobjects.

--

George Hester
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"Blake" <blaketexas(no_spam)@aol.com> wrote in message
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Have read a number of posts about pagefile.sys problems, and been
through
<much, most?> of the excellent aumha.org content, the Microsoft
Knowledge
Base and this user group, and am still baffled.

I can reset the min./max. size of the pagefile in either the GUI panel
or
in
the registry. In either case, it shows the changes as having been
accepted,
but I continue to get the missing pagefile error message when
restarting
XP.> > > Believe all permissions are properly set for both the
Administrator and my
own user account, following instructions in the XP KB file (315270).
I have tried to make the change in both the Administrator and user
account

One other rub -- I cannot find pagefile.sys in the C:\ (root)
directory,
even though that's where the system says the pagefile is located. I
have
set folder options to show hidden files/folders and to not hide
protected
files.



I believe the fact I can't see a pagefile.sys is a critical part of
the
story. Am running under SP-1, Symantec is disabled (for now).

Any thoughts?




.

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