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Paging file size
Name: mctavish Date: February 6, 2005 at 23:18:53 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home Edition CPU/Ram: P4 3.0/512
Comment:
I am unable to keep my paging file size over 766 MB. When I try setting it to a larger fixed custom size, the entries are saved, but when I click OK, the total paging file size for all drives still reads 766. Rebooting doesn't help. I have plenty of free disk space. Does anyone have an idea about this?
Name: mctavish Date: February 7, 2005 at 02:36:18 Pacific
Reply:
Right, I've made that mistake in the past. But not this time. The correct entry is set in the Virtual Memory box; it's just that when I OK back into the Advanced tab of the Performance Options box it reads 766.
I have just installed Zone Alarm Security Suite. It seems like sometime in the past I dumped the free version of Zone Alarm firewall because of this problem, but I'm not sure. In any case, turning off Zone Alarm doesn't help.
Thanks.
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Response Number 3
Name: wanderer Date: February 7, 2005 at 07:10:34 Pacific
Reply:
Have you run chkdsk /f on the drive letter in question and have you degragged your drive?
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Response Number 4
Name: mctavish Date: February 7, 2005 at 08:48:14 Pacific
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To wanderer:
Did all of that plus a surface scan.
The 766 is right at 1.5X my RAM (512 X 1.5 = 768), so I believe that is where that came from. Someone with 256 of RAM having the same problem might hit a ceiling of about 384, with 1012 of RAM a ceiling of 1518, etc.
I know I've had this problem before, and to the best of my recollection on a different computer, but I can find very little about it on the net. I’m just surprised that no one else has encountered it.
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