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by tbangs

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Erroneously, my hard drive was selected when I was trying to change the folder options for a folder on my PC. A systems person was able to get it back as my hard drive, but since then I get a message each time I log on that my paging file can't be found and that Windows will create a new one. I'm instructed to change the settings. I have done this several times but it doesn't make a difference. Is there anything I can do? Or does IT have to reformat my hard drive?

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by brian

I can't imagine that they will need to reformat your hard drive. Howeveer since you have an IT Department (as opposed to many in the forum that are the IT Department), I would recomend asking them to address this problem now rather than you tinkering with it and perhaps ending up with a bigger problem. You can probably fix it but why take the chance. Watch them fix it and learn that way.

by wrcotton

You don't say what OS you're running. If it's some flavor of NT, you won't be able to mess with the paging file anyway unless you have admin rights to your computer.

Try going to Control Panel, click on System, and then click on the Performance tab. You should see Virtual Memory section with a Change button. This will allow you to see what the settings are, but don't actually change anything unless you're sure you know what you're doing.

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