Windows (2003) can't find pagefile
2 days ago our server gave allot of errors (every 30 sec ish) and basicly stopped from doing anything (couldnt open any program). So we shut it down and rebooted the machine.
the event was ID: 333
msg: An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably. The Registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system's image of the Registry.
since that reboot the machine says it can't find the pagefile or the pagefile is to small, we checked the settings and they were fine but still tried to change it to let system take care of it but no luck.
I checked in the registry where it would be writing the pagefile.sys to and was as default c:\ , so I checked and no pagefile.sys to find (it does show system files, checked that allready).
Anyone knows how to resolve this? its running on a temp pagefile at this moment (256Mb).
Kind regards,
Jesper
November 17th, 2010 3:50am
Hi,
Please refer to the following suggestions for troubleshooting this time.
Suggestion 1 Give Full Control Permission to the SYSTEM Account
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1.
Start Windows Explorer, right-click the computer’s root hard drive C:, and then click Properties.
2.
Click the Security tab, and then click Edit.
3.
In the Group or user names box, click the SYSTEM account.
4.
Under Allow, make sure the Full Control checkbox is checked , and then click OK.
Suggestion 2 Verify the Registry Permissions
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1.
Click Start, Run, type regedit and then press Enter.
2.
Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, on the Edit menu, click Permissions.
3.
Verify that the SYSTEM account has been added and that it has Full control. If it does not, add the SYSTEM account with Full control.
4.
Please use the same method to give Full control permission to the following registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKEY_USERS
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
Suggestion 3: Clear the Windows Paging File at Shutdown temporary
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Note: After troubleshooting, please remember to change the key back later.
Change the data value of the ClearPageFileAtShutdown value in the following registry key to a value of 1:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
If the value does not exist, add the following value:
Value Name: ClearPageFileAtShutdown
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1
Note: you need to restart the computer to let the registry changes to take efforts.
Hope the above information will be helpful.
Thanks.
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November 18th, 2010 2:21am
Hello Nina,
First of all thanks allot for your reply/suggestions.
The first two suggestions we allready had set like this, the third was indeed on 0 and after planning to shut down the server for a while I have done as you said, and it worked.
Thanks allot, really appriciate it
Jesper Goossens
November 19th, 2010 7:22am
Hi Jesper,
I am glad to hear that the issue has been resolved.
Thanks for your feedback.
Best Regards,
Nina
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November 21st, 2010 8:50pm


