Phat
10-17-2001, 07:51 AM
I was playing around with WinXP on my notebook and after rebooting I received an error message "Your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small" then it tells you how to change the size of the paging file. I did nothing to provoke this, I didn't touch my virtual memory settings. The last thing I did was just change the name of the workgroup I was in and the name of the computer.
So far I have tried:
- Changing my paging file to recommended size and much larger than recommended size.
- Changing settings so Windows manages my paging file size.
- Changing settings so there is no paging file used (still gives error message).
- Booting in safe mode, changing attributes of pagefile.sys and deleting it.
- Changing registry setting so Windows clears pagefile.sys every time it shuts down.
- As last resort, tried different RAM.
After trying all of these I was still unsuccessful and still receive the error message. I didn't install any new software and it does the same thing in safe mode. Cannot boot from a disk and try things as the system is running NTFS.
Some guys at work have got their hands on some updates for WinXP so I'll check them out, and I might even try reinstalling Windows over the top to see if it helps.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I'd like to fix this without formatting as I think this problem can be solved.
Thanks.
So far I have tried:
- Changing my paging file to recommended size and much larger than recommended size.
- Changing settings so Windows manages my paging file size.
- Changing settings so there is no paging file used (still gives error message).
- Booting in safe mode, changing attributes of pagefile.sys and deleting it.
- Changing registry setting so Windows clears pagefile.sys every time it shuts down.
- As last resort, tried different RAM.
After trying all of these I was still unsuccessful and still receive the error message. I didn't install any new software and it does the same thing in safe mode. Cannot boot from a disk and try things as the system is running NTFS.
Some guys at work have got their hands on some updates for WinXP so I'll check them out, and I might even try reinstalling Windows over the top to see if it helps.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I'd like to fix this without formatting as I think this problem can be solved.
Thanks.