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Windows XP Upgarde - Page File Problem

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by mick.horton

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I've recently upgraded from WindowsXP Home to Windows XP Pro. After completing the installation, the system continues to tell me that I have no paging file setup. I go in (as a user with administrator profile) and setup the paging file with appropriate mins and maxes, click apply, and the mins and maxes remain, but the paging file always remains at "0". Rebooting doesn't help. I've tried making the changes in DOS with the appropriate DOS commands, but that doesn't work either. Am looking forsuggestions.

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by wcp

This might be out of whack but MAY be worth a try.
I had Windows 2000 Pro and got an error message stating there was not enough page file and was recommended to delete unnecessary programs. When I press "OK" button, the system would shut down. The fix was to boot the computer using a Windows 98 startup disk and ran "Fdisk /mbr" without the quotes. You MAY try the same. I strongly recommend to backup your data before you do it.

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