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Page File ERROR - need assistance

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ToXiCRaGE

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My page file is 400-800MB and my registry size is 35 megs. But whenever i startup Win2K its says my page file is not available or too small and tells me to change it in the advanced performance options. I tried to increse it and it dosent work. Everytime Windows boots up it creates a temp 20MB page file. Im not using FAT32 on my Maxtor 40Gig HD, but NTFS (or however that's called). Im running a 1gig T-Bird on a Gigabyte 7DX, and a GF2 GTS - if that helps.

PS:what is a "page file" anyways and how can i fix it.
PS: my games dont want to work either, or they work for a while and then crash.... i have all the newest drivers for my vid card installed. I think its because of the Page File error....is it?
 
The pagefile.sys is W2k swapfile. Two times physical memory is a good guide and is set in the systems/advanced area. A good place to put it would be the first file on the base partition, also you can break it up into parts and place them on different partitions.
 
Have you changed permissions on the page file or in the root directory??? If the user you're logged in as or the system cannot access the page file you will get that message.

Double check your permissions.
 
i had this annoying problem at college on the lab pcs with win2k... this fixed it for me, goto system properties, then the advanced tab, then perf. options, then click change, set the intiated size to the max size. and click set, and then set another page file for your other drives, that fixed it for me at college, i never had the problem at home though, and i have 4 partitions, at college they had 2......
 
The way I do it with 2 drives is on drive 2 create a 1000 m partition say : G: and set the swap file to minimum AND max = at 580-600 m. No need to have it changing..It slows the machine down.
I have done the same on a single drive...Keep min and max the same...
Unless you have diskeeper defrag this is the only way that other defrags will do the swap file.
You'll "feel" the difference in performance too.
 
before you go and reset your min and max values for the pagefile, make sure you defrag whatever disk the pagefile is gonna be on first. I don't think win2k, or any winOS, will let you resize your pagefile if the drive is in need of defraging anyway. I completely agree with murdock2525 that you should set the min and max to the same value. You really will "feel" the difference. All that resizing of the swap causes such slow down and massive swapping later on.
 
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