Windows 7: Huge pagefile.sys file

copernicus · 07 Jul 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Captain Zero

For the love of...

Just disable the thing, entirely. Sheesh, it's a throw-back to the stoneage.

How do oyu get around the annoying message that pops up at every boot?

nate42nd · 07 Jul 2009

What message? I have seen no message.

copernicus · 07 Jul 2009

I turned off the pagefile on my netbook, and anytime I reboot it (not often since I hibernate it) I get a message from windows crying about not having a pagefile and that the universe might implode if I don't set one.

nate42nd · 07 Jul 2009

Hmmmmm. I wonder if it has to do with the amount of RAM. Just a guess.

swarfega · 07 Jul 2009

How much ram do you have copernicus?

Zidane24 · 07 Jul 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by copernicus

I turned off the pagefile on my netbook, and anytime I reboot it (not often since I hibernate it) I get a message from windows crying about not having a pagefile and that the universe might implode if I don't set one.

The only thing I could think of is either he has a "turbo memory" type graphics card that uses the pagefile for something at boot OR for some reason it is logging some type of crash dump at boot and needs it...

EDIT:AND of course he may have lower than the recommended amount of RAM for 7 and it needs to page itself

copernicus · 07 Jul 2009

2 giggers on the netbook with onboard graphics. 945 chipset.

Zidane24 · 07 Jul 2009

That is a shared memory graphics card (I believe that I am right about that....) so it may need the pagefile for using the onboard memory....if anything just set your pagefile between 512MB to 1GB....you will be fine

copernicus · 07 Jul 2009

Yea, it does use shared onboard, just recalled from the other forum.

Thanks.

pearljampatriot · 03 May 2010

What about moving the pagefile.sys to another partition? Will that help or increase performance?

Windows 7: Huge pagefile.sys file

Huge pagefile.sys file problems?