Buy more disk space and expand your boot partition.
Or, if you have other partitions, you can leave a 2MB pagefile on boot drive, and place the remainder on other partitions. The side effect will be if you need to perform a a memory dump at the blue screen - it won't happen.
Hi, my comp is going wayyyy too slow(winxp pro) and I cant seem to find pagefile.sys at all i think it has got deleted, my virtual memeory settings r screwing up, CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP!!!! thnx, email me!
I am also having a problem with my page file. I am a local admin on the pc, and everytime I put the page file to 386 min. I reboot, then I get the same message. It always reverts back to "missing page file, or it is too small, so Windows will make one but it's always 20 mb. I'm running a w2k sp2 Micron Laptop. any suggestions?
yeah ... mine's 730+ MB ....... what the hell is with this crap. CAn I change the size of this without slowing my pc down or having any side effects ??
i had the same problem. the system really need it as a swap-file, but you can control the amount og preallocated space. in german versions under Systemsteuerung/System/Erweitert/Systemleistung. Should be something like Control Panel/System/Virtuell Memory. There you can set a better size, e.g. 100 or 200 MB (depends on your virtuell memory)
Here's how to delete the hiberfil.sys in your root drive: Right click on an empty space in your desktop, go to properties, go to SCREEN SAVER, then POWER, then in HIBERNATE UNcheck "enable hibernation". That should delete your hiberfil.sys file. =)
Your pagefile.sys is a strange and wonderful beast... sorta.
The short answer: No, there isn't much you can do about your pagefile size. Consider it a key part of Windows.
The long answer: The pagefile is created and used by Windows when it needs more memory. Oftentimes the many programs you run on your computer will request more memory (RAM, effectively) than your computer can give it, so to go and find more storage, Windows turns to your harddrive in the form of pagefile.sys.
That's why, when you open more than just a couple programs at once the system slows down -- it runs out of RAM and turns to the harddrive for more space. The harddrive is also a lot slower than RAM, which is commonly why the whole thing gets even slower when you open something else.
Couple things you can do.. * Run less programs at once * Get more RAM into the machine
Besides that, there isn't much. You MIGHT be able to find a utility out there that keeps your pagefile a bit more tidy, or find articles out there that might help you find out how to effectively manage the file's size via arcane settings and so on, but I wouldn't know where to find such things. Good hunting.
Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Performance Options -> Virtual Memory area (click change button) -> enter proper values, then click 'set'.
Remember, though, setting Initial size to 0 or maximum size to something rediculously low like 5MB won't do you any good. Windows, being Windows, will gladly increase your pagefile size as it needs to or wants to ... like the post above and the person whom couldn't get it any less than 20MB.
Not sure about Windows 9x/Me/XP, but it should be something roughly similar, go dig around. :)
Microsoft reccomends the pagefile be set to 1.5 times the total amount of RAM you have. So if you have 512M RAM, set it to 768M. Set the min and max both to 768M - this supposedly helps performance.
My Pagefile.sys is 256MB..this is really annoying...
I lowered my virtual memory to 100Mb then restarted my Win NT box... That worked in lowering it.
It's as if the file is making a part of your hard drive a RAM disc (a la Mac). The only solution is to buy more RAM or install an additional hard drive or slap Bill Gates.
I think mine beats the size of any of yours. Mine is exactly 3,145,728 Mb. Beat that! How in the hell does it become so big? Just because of the virtual mem i set or what?
I increased my PC's memory to 512 MB and experienced the same problems as Dale Johnson no matter what sizes I put to the page file settings. Then I vaguely remembered that the initial file allocation must be contiguous so I formatted d-drive and put the new page file there, checked that there was a brand new pagefile.sys there and rebooted... Voila... everything works!
So make sure that the initial size you give to the page file can be found on the drive where it'll be allocated and that it is contiguous.
I had all similar problems and more till I switched to Linux and abandoned the use of any Microsoft products. There r alternatives to everything under Linux. I still use Win2k sometimes, to play games or to work on voice recognition projects, etc but I happily tweak around and mess with anything in win2k now cus i give a damn.
I assumed erroneously that pagefile.sys needs to be on contiguous disk area but it seems that NTFS needs the Everyone or SYSTEM group with full control permission on the drive where pagefile.sys exists.
I have 2 pagefile.sys one on c, one on d, both 384mb ... You're saying put in more memory, I just upgraded from 128 to 512 and it didnt change it a bit. wtf. isnt there a way to force it to 'empty' and restart from scratch? grr. I want linix :P
Ok, I've got windows XP running with 512 rams, when I saw this pagefile.sys, I jumped! 768 megs of nothing and what can take more then 512 RAM??? So, I found the answer to my problem on #13: Start ---> Control Pannel---> System ---> Advanced Tab ---> click parameters on the performance part ---> on the new windows ---> Advanced tab ---> then click the modify button on the virtual memory tab ---> Now you can modify the values(not too much if you don't got too much RAM)---> don't forget to push the define button when you're done. ---> Restart(after clicked ok ok ok )--->That's it!
Okay, check this out. My pagefile.sys is 1,207,959,552. That's 1.2GB!!! Sheesh. And this on a system with a 600mhz 512kb Pentium III, with 768MB of SDRAM. Why in the world would any OS need a 1.2GB swapfile? Is Microsoft CRAZY?!?!?
Man die pagefile.sys bei w2k und bestimmt auch xp unter ->SYSTEMSTEUERUNG/SYSTEM -Karteikarte >ERWEITERT< und dann den button SYSTEMLEISTUNGSOPTIONEN und dann erweiterten speicher in grösse und partitionlage festlegen ich empfehle bei scsi/ide gemischt pcs darauf zu achten dass die pagefile.sys auf scsi platten liegt, um keine performance einbusen hinnehmen zun müssen
wow thats a funny thread actually... By the way, are you looking for the cure for cancer with that 768MB of RAM... How about the other guy, who advises people to switch to linux everytime they have problems... I was expecting someone complaining about his flu and how microsoft probably screwed that up... ...go to microsoft knowledge base (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx), and search for either one: pagefile (pagefile.sys, virtual memory)
My problem is no mater what settings I put in for resizing the pagefile it won't create a pagefile.sys Then I always get the message pagefile too small or missing. Whatever I set I get a message saying there was a problem with the pagefile configuration and so the system created one. I am using XP pro.
Response 29. Same here but Im using XP home. My HD does not even have a pagefile.sys file on it !!!!! I cant get XP to write one. Have been told to run fdisk as so -FDISK /MBR and this may cure it. Any clues any one, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
