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Thread ID: 28212 2002-12-13 09:03:00 Page File dilemma seanl (2378) Press F1
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105715 2002-12-13 12:44:00 there was something about pagefiles in novembers pc authority (the one with MS service packs on it, might be december issue though) in the advanced computing section. someone was wanting XP to delete their pagefile at shutdown (slows down the shutdown process, but is more secure). usually, my pagefile (on 40GB hdd) was about 800MB, but after doing the registry setting so it was deleted/cleared at shutdown, it has started off small and grown from there as more data was loaded into windows memory. i let windows handle the size of my pagefile, and don't have any errors. i would advise you to see www.microsoft.com and download the MS TweakUI XP powertoy. agent (30)
105716 2002-12-14 02:15:00 If you can start in safe Mode, do a scandisk and defrag. Have a look at what is loading (or trying to load) at boot time, and remove the ones that you don't ever use. ;-) Graham L (2)
105717 2002-12-17 10:30:00 thanks everyone.

I booted in safe mode, defrag, uninstalled the crappy tweak program, restarted and voila. All go again

Too scared to restart again however...whats the record for a machine left running without power down :)
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