Re: Strange behavior - paging file won't resize.

Sorry, don't have an answer at the moment,

Scratching my head on this one.

Jerry

"OldWin32Dog" <whonew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes.

I've been using all flavors of Windows NT since the initial release of 3.1
(including 3.51, 4.0, 2000, 2003 and XP). It seems highly unlikely that
this is an issue of mechanics as I've done this quite a lot in the last 16
or so years.

I strongly suspect it has something to do with all the changes to XP in
the security model. Some of the patches since service pack 2 have made
major changes in this area and I suspect not all impacts have been
discovered. Simply performing a comparison of the security model after
installing sp2 to the security model in place after applying all
hotfixes/patches since sp2 (almost 80 of them for my environment) shows a
complete overhaul. Somewhere in this lies the answer.

What baffles me most is the lack of any other apparent problems. I've
installed quite a bit of other software (SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio
2005, Office 2007 and a whole lot more) and I'm not seeing any issues.
The event logs are very clean. All the applications are performing well.
Simply no other indicators of underlying issues.

So, (1) why this issue and, (2) what is causing it?

Thanks again!

"JerryM (ID)" <jerrym526@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I assume you clicked the SET button when you made your changes ?

"OldWin32Dog" <whonew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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JerryM, this machine only has a single drive. When the OS was
originally set up the paging file was set to have the system manage it.
That's where the original paging file size came from. I've tried
setting it back to system managed as well as to other custom sizes. The
result is always the same. I can reboot into Safe mode and the paging
file will resize according to whatever settings I have most recently
told it to use. However, when I then boot back into standard Windows,
the paging file is always reset back to the size created when I first
installed the OS. Any ideas?

Thanks!
OW32Dog...

"JerryM (ID)" <jerrym526@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Just a question,

When you go to the paging file, in the performance options, what is the
total paging file size for all the drives, that windows is using ?

If you choose system managed size in the following screen, it will
adjust automatically.

Another old dog,
Jerry

"OldWin32Dog" <glennb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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[Originally posted in windowsxp.configuration_manage]

I have recently installed Windows XP Pro on a new laptop. I've
applied service pack 2 as well as all applicable hotfixes from MS
Update.

My account is an Administrator on the machine. I go into System
Properties and change the paging file settings to a custom size, 3000
initial size and 3000 maximum size. I click the Set button, then OK
(and so on) until I exit System Properties. I get the message telling
me to reboot the system. I do so. Upon logging back in I notice the
paging file is still the same size as it had been before I made the
change! No messages indicating an error in event logs. I go into
System Properties and the new settings are still set (as noted above).

I reboot the box and go into Safe mode. Voila, the paging file size
has now changed to the size I set. Good. Reboot and go on about
business. However, upon logging in I see that the paging file has
again gone back to its original size!

Any ideas as to what is going on here?
Thank you!








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