page file help

Hello-

I have recently taken the advice of some sharky members and moved my page file from my system partition and moved it to an entirely different drive.

However, for some reason, my total page file allotment shows up to be 921mb more than whatever I have my page file set at. Currently, I have it set at 1.5 gb or so, as I have 1 gb of RAM. Still, it shows up at 2400 mb of total page file.

Yes, I have gone through and deleted all old pagefile.sys remnant files. I have also done searching via the find function and the only file that shows up above 400mb (besides my current pagefile.sys) is my hiberfile.sys file.

What can I do to locate where the extra 900+mb of page file is being allocated from? Even the virtual mem/page file properties page of xp control panel/performance/advanced only sees the page file and drive that I have specefied. I'm at a loss of what else to do. Incidentally, I have an independant recources monitoring prog that is telling me of the extra pf, and it is confirmed by SiSoft Sandra 2003.

Any ideas ??

Look at the list of paging files in My Computer, System Properties, Performance Options, Virtual Memory Change. It is possible to have a paging file on each disk volume. Delete the definition you don't want.

i once had a similar problem with xp, where it would keep the original page file that windows set up, even after i removed it under the performance options. what i did was completely delete all my page files, so i had no paging file at all, rebooted, and then set my page file on the partition i wanted.

Thanks for the replies

Actually, when I go to control panel/advanced/performance/etc to where you set it up, and I choose 'no page file' on every drive and every partition', choose 'set' each time, and reboot, it still shows that there is 921mb somewhere. At this point, after I search and delete any pf remnants, it is coming from somewhere.

Would a reformat help here mabye?

Where are you seeing a page file?

The only places that I find the 'extra' pagefile are on the 'coolmon' prog and when I check out 'windows memory info' in Sandra 2003. Right now I currently have the pf set in two different drives with 300 min/max on one and 600 min/max on the other, but max pagefile is still shows over 1800mb ... (Again, 1800 max pagefile shows up in coolmon and sandra2003 only. Under control panel\advanced\performance\advanced\virtual memory it shows total pagefile at 900mb max.

Here is what it says in Sandra:

Maximum Page file: 1828mb
Current Page file: 805mb
Free Page file: 1601mb 88%
Page file E:\pagefile.sys 300 300
Page file J:\pagefile.sys 600 600

What do you see in Windows Explorer? The file is in the root of each drive and is called pagefile.sys. I suspect this is a reporting problem only.