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by phill.adk

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Every time I boot up I get the error message "missing paging file or it's too small". I have followed the procedure, which incidentally I have done successfully before, but to no effect. Every time it reboots I get the same message & continuous messsages that the paging file is too small. It's now "doing my head in". Can anybody pleeaase offer a solution?

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by dryflies

To stop this error message from being displayed, choose Properties on the File menu in Windows 2000 Explorer or File Manager to disable the read-only attribute on Pagefile.sys

by dryflies

that means it is missing. go into the system applet in control panel you can also get there by right clicking my computer and selecting properties. go to the "advanced" tab, and click the "performance" settings button. go to the advanced tab on that dialog and then in "Virtual Memory" click the "change" button. set the size and location of the paging file as needed. I set mine to about 1.5 times physical RAM.

by sgt_shultz

as above, just to add to above how-to: be logged in with an account that belongs to the administrator group. have plenty (1gb) of free, defragged hard disk space.
have you scanned for viruii?

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