Temporary Pagefile Wont Die

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#35015 2-Jun-2009 11:29

I tried to shunt my pagefile to an SD card on my HP Mini 1000, it was a test to see if 7 could handle this as well as XP could, the answer was no, so windows gave me that error

"Windows Has Created A Temporary Pagefile blah blah blah"

Went into performance settings and reverted the pagefile to none. It shows pagefile in use as 0. However, my disk space usage has not changed, it still thinks there is a 600mb pagefile somewhere, since i have an 8gb SSD and only had 620mb free after programs etc this is a problem (numbers are estimates).

I cannot find it with jdiskreport, disk cleanup or CCleaner, and cannot find it by browing or searching. System restore is disabled, this is just a netbook.

Where the hell is this daemon and how do i exorcise it?

PS - Checked google, only seems to be corrections for windows 2000 and they do not work.

Cheers All,

Min

PPS - If anyone knows how to fix windows update on 7 with the error when it can no longer download updates i'd be interested in a PM

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#220885 2-Jun-2009 14:20

Try using TreeSize free to track down the space hogs:
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

Other than that space could be used by the shadow volume copy. Open a cmd prompt with admin rights and type:

vssadmin list shadowstorage

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#221373 3-Jun-2009 17:02

First of all thanks for suggesting that program a nice piece of software.

Right found the issues, a 900mb pagefile and a 1.5gb hiberfil.sys.

Now, when i set a pagefile to any size and location windows boots with the error pagefile and creates its 900mb one anyway.

When i try remove hiberfil.sys i get told its in use, so turned it off in powerplans, still in use, ok use the powercfg.exe -h off command, and i got an error stating something about a legacy codec.

How the hell to i kill these buggers, its looking like a reinstall job, but i dnt reli want to go this way.

EDIT >> Killer Hiberfil.sys finally, now for pagefile, attempting to regedit the thing to death if it works will post method i found

EDIT >>> KIlled the pagefile finally, apparently windows 7 has a feature where if the pagefile gets all confused set pagefile on all drives to 16mb max and min and reboot, will fix it

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#222125 6-Jun-2009 00:21

Windows is not really designed or optimized to run without a page file. Crash reports and memory dumps for example will not get generated. Also Windows will eventually turn it back "on" since some processes need a small amount of "virtual RAM".

I would look at freeing up space in other ways like removing sample media files that comes with windows, uninstalling features and applications you don't really use.

Disable system restore
Disable hibernation
Run Windows Disk Cleanup (it's pretty good in Windows 7 and Vista)
Delete temp files (usually something like: C:\Users\[YourUserName]\AppData\Local\Temp )
Run ccleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/)

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#222134 6-Jun-2009 08:16

Disabling system restore is only really needed if you don't have much space left. System restore can save your day sometimes.

To disable Hibernation simply open the drive properties and click the [Disk Clenaup] button. There will be checkboxes for all these options plus some. By checking the Hibernation box to clean the file you will also disable the hiberation feature.

If you click the More Options tab you can also clean up system restore - it will delete all previous system restore files, except for the last one. This is a better option than disabling system restore altogether.

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#222137 6-Jun-2009 08:18

i wanted it off to disable its generation of a 1gb pagefile which on the mini hurts, now hiberfil is off i have system restore on again and a 100mb pagefile for dumps.

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