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Cannot Change Pagefle size from 20 mb

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by henry.labella

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Platform Win2k, Drive C: = 6.0 GB, Space Available 4398 MB, Paging file
Inital size 190 MB, Maximum size 400 MB, Currently allocated 20 MB. Checked
Registory it indicates Pageingfiles = 190 400. Everytime I boot I get a
"Pagingflie error, either does not exist or too small". Try to change it up or
down, nothing happens, set it to 0 and still nothing happens other then I have to reboot for "changes to take effect". No matter how I change it the "Currently allocated" will not change. I purchased Winternals ERD Commander and used it to delete the "temppf.sys" but each time I reboot the file reappears. Any body any ideas?

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by mckaytech

I have a sense that this is a permissions or policy issue. W2K is notoriously humorless about assigning permissions and I'm wondering if the machine was originally set up with a policy in effect or if the system account doesn't have the necessary rights to the file system.

Article Q244600 on Microsoft's Technet site has information about the default permissions you should expect to see.

paul

by henry.labella

Found that "Systems" did not have permissions to write to "C:". Correct the permissions and all works as advertised. Thanks for the help

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