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I'm on XP32 SP3 and I've set up a pagefile on a different physical drive to where I keep my OS installation, yet Windows still insists on keeping a copy of pagefile.sys 3.5GB in size on the same partition that it's sitting on!
I double- and triple-checked that that partition is set to "no paging file" in the System applet, and I experimented with both fixed-sized pagefiles and system-managed ones on the other drive, yet the other-drive pagefile.sys never exceeds 1.8GB, which suggests to me that the OS-partition copy is getting used more.
I tried to unlock and delete pagefile.sys from my OS partition, and the computer predictably BSOD'ed. I can't figure out why this is happening and how I can stop it!
I double- and triple-checked that that partition is set to "no paging file" in the System applet, and I experimented with both fixed-sized pagefiles and system-managed ones on the other drive, yet the other-drive pagefile.sys never exceeds 1.8GB, which suggests to me that the OS-partition copy is getting used more.
I tried to unlock and delete pagefile.sys from my OS partition, and the computer predictably BSOD'ed. I can't figure out why this is happening and how I can stop it!