Your Computer Memory Forgets to Let Go? Courtesy of http://www.GeerCom.com.
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Here's the poop! Every now and then I get tired of dumbing things way, way down for newbies, not that I don't feel for ya, but it's real hard brain work. Now, the weekend is coming on and this blog entry is going to take half an hour if I go to that trouble (sorry, I'm only human).

The good news is, if you have been having memory errors and you look in your root directory and see a pagefile.sys that is by far the biggest file in there, and if you can follow me, I have the solution to make your computer go back to normal functioning.

Grab my coattails and let's rock!

If the problem is an application filling up the pagefile.sys with crap, identify that application using the instructions here:
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_can_i_fix_too_little_virtual_memory_in_windows.html, then reinstall that application.

For those comfortable with using the Registry and regedit, use these instructions:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314834 to clear the pagefile.sys on shutdown and reboot. If you do this and find that Windows did not recreate a new pagefile.sys, do the following.

Use MSCONFIG to turn off all startup programs and restart. Go into My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Performance Settings, Advanced, Change. Select Custom and put double your RAM in initial size and max size, hit Set and OK. Then go back into the registry and take out the change to clear the pagefile.sys.

This happened to me the first time I set my XP box up to clear teh page file but oddly enough not this time, while doing it again to write this blog (?!).

Best,
David Geer - your on time technology writer!
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