Re: Another System Has No Paging File or the Paging File Too Small

53 is OK, I'd suggest you either disable System Restore or set it's
reserved space to something that might hold 2 restore points, say
500 Megabytes ( Max ). Also someone yesterday mentioned the
Hibernation ( Hiberfil.Sys ). I would agree you might want to set
Hibernation support to disabled. This would recover disk space =
to your Physical RAM count.

"stgislander" <stgislander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There are two errors in this morning's System event log.

#1 - The System Restore initialization process failed.
#2 - The System Restore Service service terminated with the following
error:
The system cannot find the device specified.

The time from pressing the ON button to the error message is 53 seconds.

"R. McCarty" wrote:

OK, that helps. Have you checked the System Event Log ? you
may have startup issues. Speaking of that what sort of boot time
are you getting ?
Event Log, Click Start, Run (type) EventVwr.Msc [Enter]
Expand the System Log in the Left pane, check Right Pane for
red icons that denote errors.

"stgislander" <stgislander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There is no anti-virus or other security software installed. This is a
new,
fresh OS installation.

"R. McCarty" wrote:

To purge \DllCache, open Command prompt window and type
SFC \PurgeCache [Enter]
What Anti-Virus or other Security software is installed ? Some
products ( eTrust 7.x ) can interfere with Pagefile changes.

"stgislander" <stgislander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the suggestions. I followed your instructions including
defraging
the volume and trimming some of the Windows components. I did not
locate
a
\DllCache folder to purge. Even after manually sizing pagefile to
256MB
(initial) and 384MB (maximum), I still get the "System Has No Paging
File
or
the Paging File Is Too Small" error after reboot.

"R. McCarty" wrote:

Set Pagefile to None, Reboot, Defrag the volume, then set a
manually
sized pagefile of say 256 or 384 Megabytes ( Min/Max ). I still
would
recommend you use Add/Remove programs ( Windows Components )
and then say XPLite to trim back the footprint of XP. You can also
reduce it further if you purge the \DllCache which will recover
~500
Meg.
Actually, I'd download and use Perfect Disk 8.0 in both a Boot and
GUI mode pass to get the drive optimized. On several occasions
I've
been able to get Windows XP installed/running in a 2.7 Gigabyte
disk
footprint.

Perfect Disk 8.0 evaluation versions here:
http://www.raxco.com/products/downloadit/

"stgislander" <stgislander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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I just completed a fresh installation of WinXP and I immediately
began
getting the "System Has No Paging File or the Paging File Is Too
Small"
error. Before asking my question I thought I'd review the other
posts
to
see
if I could fix the problem. My project requires only the OS and
my
control
application so a small (4GB) removable microdrive was selected.
The
drive
has only one partition. Both files C:\pagefile.sys and
C:\windows\system32\temppf.sys were located on the drive.

I followed the suggestions in KB Article 315270 and ensured that
all
users
(Administrator and one other) has Full Control permissions. I
also
followed
some suggestions from Pegasus about giving everybody full access
using
the
"cacls c: /e /g everyone:F" command, and ensuring that the SYSTEM
account
has
full access to the HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Memory
Management registry key. I even checked that the "Read-only" box
was
not
checked in the C:\pagefile.sys properties per someones
suggestion.
Nothing
fixed the error.

Finally, following a thought from R. McCarty that the
C:\pagefile.sys
file
might be corrupt, I deleted it thinking that a new file would be
created
when
I set the page file size in Windows
Explorer\Properties\Advanced\Performance\Advanced\Virtual Memory.
Of
course
that wasn't the case, and I am unable to copy
C:\windows\system32\temppf.sys
to the root because the system says the file's in use.

Can anyone offer any assistance?











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