Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because
Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer
Hi all I recently upgraded my Laptop from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 professional. (64 bit)
I also upgraded a desktop from Windows XP to Windows 7 pro. (64 bit)
So when I did this for these two machines I now get this warning message and Windows creates a temporary pagefile.sys on the C drive where I don’t want it.
In both cases I’m not using these partitions for anything else, both are GT 8 Gb in size, the laptop has a 12Gb partition and the desktop a 16 Gb partition.
Here’s the kicker. The allocated size Windows creates on the C drives is ONLY 4Gb! 2Gb smaller than the recommended size.
When I adjust the min and max sizes to 6144 and 7168 megabytes and reboot. Windows 7 essentially ignores my settings and creates the temp paging file on the C drive and issues this warning msg.
«Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of a problem that occurred with your paging file configuration when you started your computer. Total paging file size for all disk drives may be somewhat larger than the size you specified.»
Also on both of these machines I’m only using between 25 and 35 % of the system RAM.
at any given time. I don’t keep a lot of «windows» open. I don’t do any gaming or run any databases.
So I’m NOT low on memory.
Any Ideas on how I can force windows 7 from creating these temporary paging files and only use the ones I have defined.
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You can turn off page file on the C drive These are generic instructions done from memory (Im on win 8 atm) in system control panel>advanced system settings>advanced>performance>advanced>virtual memory>Uncheck auto manage>check no page file
There is a good reason to have a small page file the size of your RAM on the OS drive & that is if you eve BSOD and dont have one no DMP file will be written making recovery more difficult
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Hi all I recently upgraded my Laptop from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 professional. (64 bit)
I also upgraded a desktop from Windows XP to Windows 7 pro. (64 bit)
So when I did this for these two machines I now get this warning message and Windows creates a temporary pagefile.sys on the C drive where I don’t want it.
In both cases I’m not using these partitions for anything else, both are GT 8 Gb in size, the laptop has a 12Gb partition and the desktop a 16 Gb partition.
Here’s the kicker. The allocated size Windows creates on the C drives is ONLY 4Gb! 2Gb smaller than the recommended size.
When I adjust the min and max sizes to 6144 and 7168 megabytes and reboot. Windows 7 essentially ignores my settings and creates the temp paging file on the C drive and issues this warning msg.
«Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of a problem that occurred with your paging file configuration when you started your computer. Total paging file size for all disk drives may be somewhat larger than the size you specified.»
Also on both of these machines I’m only using between 25 and 35 % of the system RAM.
at any given time. I don’t keep a lot of «windows» open. I don’t do any gaming or run any databases.
So I’m NOT low on memory.
Any Ideas on how I can force windows 7 from creating these temporary paging files and only use the ones I have defined.
Hi ZigZag3143 thanks very much for your response.
I didn’t make clear that I had initially turned off paging on the «C» drive (as I have done in previous versions of windows)
That’s my «problem» despite removing the page file from the «C» drive and defining a page file on
another logical partition, when I reboot the system I’m still getting this warning message.
I wonder if it’s controlled thru some setting(s) in the registry.
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There should always be a small page file on C, maybe 500mb so that Windows can use it to deposit dmp files in the event of a crash.
However, there is NOTHING to be gained by moving the rest of the page file to a partition which is on the same drive as C. All you are doing is forcing the heads to move even more every time that the page file is accessed.
Moving the page file to another drive only makes sense and only works when it is moved to another physical drive.
Set your page file on C to ‘system managed’ and the messages will go away, assuming that your C drive is large enough to accommodate everything that you do..
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There should always be a small page file on C, maybe 500mb so that Windows can use it to deposit dmp files in the event of a crash.
However, there is NOTHING to be gained by moving the rest of the page file to a partition which is on the same drive as C. All you are doing is forcing the heads to move even more every time that the page file is accessed.
Moving the page file to another drive only makes sense and only works when it is moved to another physical drive.
Set your page file on C to ‘system managed’ and the messages will go away, assuming that your C drive is large enough to accommodate everything that you do..
Hi Mike I appreciate your response..so what you’re telling me is that this «behavior» is a «Feature» not a problem. I find this curious since I’ve defined separate paging files in previous versions of windows sometimes (in the past 4 years) in another partition on the same drive, and on a separate drive
when hard-drives weren’t as large as they are now. I build my own systems and I’ve always used
Western Digital drives with great success so I’m not worried about forcing the heads to do a job they’re
Regarding the writing of dump data to the paging file I find that curious also.
To my way of thinking (IBM z/OS) it’s better to write dump data to a special dump file which could be a USB «thumb» drive.
Writing out of dumps takes memory also and probably forces the use of the paging file.
I wonder if there’s a way to create a separate dump file.
Frankly I don’t see why it makes a difference if the paging file is on a separate physical drive or a separate partition on the same drive. To me placing the paging file in a separate partition is safer
than placing the file on the «C» system drive where the chance of overwriting another file is a distinct
So the bottom line with Windows 7 is that I have to create a paging file on a separate physical drive.
Why can’t it be like Linux where you can define a swap partition on the same physical drive as the root
READ THE FIRST RESPONSE FOR THE SOLUTION THAT WORKED FOR ME! THANK YOU FOR READING! GOOD LUCK!
[System Properties] Windows created a temporary paging file.
Now let me just start by saying that I consider myself a somewhat advanced pc user, I know a lot about computers. Last night, I spent a good 3-4 hours trying to solve this issue and I couldn’t figure it out. I spent so much time browsing through forums and trying to fix this problem, but I just gave up and decided that I would try today.
I have tried giving myself access to hidden windows files and I have tried deleteing the pagefile.sys, located in Local Disk (C:)
I have tried every combination of Control Panel\System and Security\System\Advanced system settings\
[performance]settings\Advanced\Change. From custom size to system managed size to no paging file, nothing fixes this issue I have.
I have tried completely deleting the pagesile.sys in my (C:) root folder. Another way to get around it not overwriting the existing pagefile.sys whenever I try to set a Custom Memory Size, or whenever I choose System Managed, or even No Page File.
An important note here is that I have tried this Admin Rights Command Prompt line: sc config afs start= disabled and I got this error code: [SC] OpenService FAILED 1060: The specified service does not exist as an installed service. This has worked for most people, but not for me, unfortunately. I have also tried specific workarounds to my issue that relates to this command prompt line failing, still no fix.
The thing is, no matter what i try and do, whenever I restart my computer, the System Properties windows always pops up telling me that windows has created a temporary paging file. No matter what I do, this popup keeps showing up whenever I restart my computer, and when I look at the size of the ‘Total paging file size for all drivers’, it is always ‘0’
Another important note is that I have a hunch that it could be because I right clicked Local Disk (C:)\properties and under Security I deleted every other user\group besides my own user (Users *********-PC\Users) Because of a different issue that I was having. Could this be causing my problem?
Thank you in advance for helping, I appreciate any help that I can get! I just stumped and it’s really frustrating and annoying, I spent so much time on it last night and I just couldn’t get it.. THANKS IN ADVANCE! Please ask questions, I will try my best to help you to help me haha
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BOIZ N GRYLLS I FIXED IT HOLY S**T.
No joke, literally the last time I turned off my pc before i went to work, whatever I did during that instance, fixed it.. O_O
So you basically have to force Windows to delete and make a fresh copy of the ‘pagefile.sys’.
Please note that this is what I followed for the most part: http://jackstromberg.com/2014/01/windows-7-windows-created-a-temporary-paging-file-on-your-computer-because-of-a-problem-that-occured-with-your-paging-file-configuration-when-you-started-your-computer/
Please not that following that guide 100% to the end did not help ME, but it may help you. My solution followed that guide all the way till then, but I had to do a different thing, I’ll go into that later.
Now continue with the rest of the guide above, except instead of leaving the ‘No paging file’ box check, click on custom paging file size instead. For me, I did 1000 for min and 2000 for max. This is what worked for me. I don’t want to fiddle around with these numbers because they worked for me and I don’t want to risk having to do this over kek.
Hit ‘OK’ for every window, and apply for every window too (I think it only gives you to option to ‘apply’ in one windows, can’t remember as of now)
Now at this point you should be able to observe that there is no pagefile.sys in your Local Disk (C:) drive root folder. At this point there should also only be ‘Default’ left in the the right panel of the Regedit window in ‘\Memory Management’. RESTART YOUR PC NOW AND PRAISE TO GABEN WHILE YOU CROSS YOUR FINGERS AND HOPE THAT WHEN YOUR PC BOOTS UP AND YOU GET TO YOUR DESKTOP THERE WON’T BE THAT **** ANNOYING POPUP :
I sincerely hope this fix works for you. I also hope you know that whoever is having this exact issue, I feel really bad for you: this is by far the worst and most irritating issue that I’ve had with any computer, ever.
So I hope this fix works for you, if you’re having this issue too. Thank you for reading. Good luck!
Fix: Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of a problem that occurred … Windows 10 & 8 & 7
Happy New Year everyone! Welcome to P&T IT BROTHER’s blog. It is our first blog post of the year 2017! We are starting the blog with Windows troubleshooting of course.. Personally, this error message is rare. We have never seen this until today. 😀 😀 😀 When we first saw this, we tried to turn on and off the Windows virtual memory, and we tried to set memory manually, but we couldn’t get rid of this long error message at Windows startup. It was very annoying, but we found a solution for this. We don’t guarantee that this will work for all of you, but we wish that this little tip is very helpful for some of you.
How to fix this “Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer..”
Let’s try this first. Click on “Computer” (in Windows 7) or click on “This PC” (in Windows 8 and Windows 10) then, right-click it. Select “Properties“. In here, click “Advanced system settings“. Click “Settings” under Performance tab. Now, click “Change…” under Virtual memory.
In here, if the “Automatically manage paging file size for all drives” option is turned on, try to turn it off by clicking it, then choose “No paging file“. Click “Set“, then you can click “OK” to finish. You must restart the computer to see the effect.
If the “Automatically manage paging file size for all drives” is turned off, try to turn this option on by clicking it. Click “OK” and restart the computer to find out if the paging error message exists.
Look for “pagefile.sys” and delete the file. After deleting the file, restart your computer. In our case, removing the “pagefile.sys” resolved the “Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of a problem that occurred with your paging file configuration when you started your computer. The total paging file size for all disk drives may be somewhat larger than the size you specified“. error message at Windows startup. Our operating system was Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit version. We hope that you have fixed the problem too! If you have any difficulties or problems, leave a comment here, and we will try to help you to solve your computer problem.
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