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by ruedac

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Hello Everyone:
The question that I have is in regards to 2000 Professional. I just built a 2000 machine and installed the following software: Office 2000 Pro, Norton Symantec Antivirus Client 7.01 and Hummingbird (emulation software). After the installation, the computer was working fine. However, today when I started it, it gave me the following error message: your system has no paging file or the paging file is to small. This error occured after trying to log in. Furthermore, the system does not let me get in after this message comes up. It kicks me back into the login screen. I have tried going in through safe mode with no success. I did not do anything with the page file after installing the programs would this be a problem???? How could I get back into the system to make changes to the page file and what changes need to be made??? All help is greatly appreciated.

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by kenalmoore

You may only have a few options left.
Select "Last Known Good", or VGA mode if that doesn't work. It 'may' work. Then try changing your bios to boot from CD and use the 'Recovery Console' and repair the installation. With this problem I wondered about the size of your hard drive!!
When you get logged in successfully, due a ERD and run the winnt32 /cmdcons to help with future problems.

by beermonster

You don't mention if it is possible to connect over the network to this machine. If it is, you might want to try connecting to the problem machines registry using regedit from another box. edit the following value (which sets the pagefile size) as approriate for the system -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PagingFiles

then reboot. The sytem will use that setting to config the pagefile when the system comes up. Hope this helps as it willbe easier and potentially less damaging than the worst case scenario - a reinstall - which may well be required if you have no Emergency Repair Disk (the recovery process may well ask for it.

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