Win 7 page file problem

Andrew@Home · 5 Jan 2013 at 23:36

I've been handed a Win 7 laptop with 1gb RAM. After windows login, the settings window for page file size opens, I have tried all sorts of settings but on reboot it just reverts to 0 mb again. Have also tried creating a page file as there doesn't appear to be one, and again that file disappears on reboot. Have tried doing it all in safe mode, and have tried manually changing the vales in regedit. Nothing I can think of works.

Any thoughts, or is a clean install the only fix?

Shadz · 5 Jan 2013 at 23:58

Open an elevated command prompt Start/Run/Cmd right mouse click and run as admin.

the type: sc config afs start= disabled [enter]

there is no space after start but there is after the = sign

Once you have done this then try again to add an amount of space for a pagefile and
make sure you hit "Set" just clicking Apply wont work in this case as you have to actually
click set otherwise your settings are not saved.

The command above will disable the advanced file security which can sometimes interfer
with settings up a pagefile because they can sometimes conflict.

How this helps let me know how you get on mate.

Andrew@Home · 6 Jan 2013 at 00:21

That worked brilliantly Shadz, tyvm

Shadz · 6 Jan 2013 at 03:28

Andrew@Home said:
That worked brilliantly Shadz, tyvm

No problem glad it worked for you buddy.