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by arielstarfire

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I have a machine running Windows XP, for some reason, the page file is not being created.

I have scanned w/updated Norton, no viruses.

1.) When first starting XP, I type in my password, but the machine won't do anything (no HDD activity) unless I hit control alt delete once. Very wierd.

Once in, I tried all settings from windows XP managed to custom sizes of the page file. (there is only one large 50GB Drive) After rebooting, each time. I get the following message when trying to enter Advanced Setting in the performance menue.

" WIndows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of an error that occured with your paging file configuration when you started your computer. The total paging file size for all disk drives maybe larger than the size you specified. "

Once I get a couple applications runnings, I got out of memory errors, and every time I go back to the performance settings, it shows my previous settings (if manually set) but the current size ofthe paging file is always 0.

Whats up with this??

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by quintar51

Hi,

As per microsoft (article Q315270)

"This error message may occur if Windows tries to create a paging file on an NTFS volume, but the System and Administrators accounts do not have the correct NTFS permissions on the volume."

What they recommend is that you reboot in safe mode (press F8 during bootup), and give the system account and administrator account full control to the NTFS volume that has the page file on it (in your case, it would be C drive).

by arielstarfire

Wow. This sounds very feasible! I ended up slicking the hard drive and reinstalling the OS. No more problems. 8-)

by zcuteone

I had the very same problem when I upgraded to XP. Just out of curiousity did you upgrade the OS? I also used the Admin account to change permissions and the system accepted it, but when I rebooted I got the same error message. What I did and might not be a viable solution to you. I had a spare HD laying around, I loaded the OS on that and used the other HD as a data drive. Both drives were formatted with NTFS.

by crapaud ergo sum

Cannot say I know for sure what is up, however, have had this happen in one machine. After switching all hardware around it ?seemed? to be motherboard related as it was the only difference other than power supply at one point.

I would not call this a fix, though it has been working for months without error for me, I increased the virtual memory to max size.

Best of luck

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