Windows 10: "Windows created a temporary paging file" pop up when I start my computer

[System Properties] Windows created a temporary paging file. I've had this problem for many weeks now, but I haven't been able to solve it.Here's what I've tried to do so far original post: here:Click Start, right-click Computer, and select PropertiesIn the left pane, select Advanced system settingsOn the Advanced tab, click the Settings button under PerformanceOn the Advanced tab, click the Change button under Virtual memoryClear the Automatically manage paging file size for all drives check box and check N

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How do I resolve the error message: Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer

I booted my machine, and suddenly got this pop-up:

When I close the pop-up, I see the Performance dialog saying Total paging file size for all drives: 0 MB. I've never changed pagefile settings, and the Change... button shows that it's set to Automatically manage paging file size for all drives.

I've tried to set to the different settings belowand reboot, but always got the same popup:

1. Select drive, set to system manage size
   
2. Select drive, set to No paging file
   
3. Custom size: Initial: 5000MB, Maximum: 10000MB
   

This answers.microsoft.com post suggests I:

• Disable pagefile - Even if I do, I get the same pop-up
  
• Delete c:\pagefile.sys - can't get deleted
  
• Set partition pagefile attribute using DISKPART - but HELP ATTRIBUTES DISK says READONLY is currently the only disk flag that may be changed.
  

Specs

• Machine: Lenovo X230, 16GB RAM
  
• Disk: Samsung Evo 850, formatted as a single C: drive.
  
• OS: Windows 10 (version 1511) 64-bit
  

 

Windows created a temporary paging file - pop up whenever i restart my computer

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

Alright, so, I honestly feel really bad to whoever has this same issue - HERE'S WHAT FIXED IT FOR ME!:

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: 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. | Jack Stromberg

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.

• Click Start, right-click Computer, and select Properties
• In the left pane, select Advanced system settings
• On the Advanced tab, click the Settings button under Performance
• On the Advanced tab, click the Change button under Virtual memory
• Clear the Automatically manage paging file size for all drives check box and check No paging file
• Click Set button next to No paging file
• Click OK on all open windows and restart your machine
• Open up Windows Explorer
• Navigate to the root of your system drive (C:\)
• Enable the showing of System Files
  • On the View menu, click Options
  • On the View tab, click Show All Files, and then click OK
• Delete the pagefile.sys file
• Click Start, right-click Computer, and select Properties
• In the left pane, select Advanced system settings
• On the Advanced tab, click the Settings button under Performance
• On the Advanced tab, click the Change button under Virtual memory
• Check the Automatically manage paging file size for all drives checkbox and click OK
• Restart your machine

DO EVERYTHING UP TO STEP '11' - This i where MY fix for this issue worked, for ME. it will probably work for you too though lol.

After step 11, hit the Windows Key + R and type in 'Regedit' - This will bring you the the Registry Editor.

GO TO - 'Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management'. DELETE EVERYTHING IN THE RIGHT PANEL! Note that you cannot delete '(Default)',
or at least I couldn't, so just hit OK or whatever when it says that you can't delete it.

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.

After clicking on Custom Paging File Size or whatever and you put in the numbers, MAKE SURE TO CLICK SET, AND BE SURE TO CHECK THE 'AUTOMATICALLY MANAGE PAGING FILE SIZE FOR ALL DRIVERS' CHECKBOX - which is located at the top of
the window.

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!

 

Putting Paging file on it's own partition

That's another one you are incorrect on (in a few cases, see below)...

The OS forms in VARIOUS circumstances when a permanent pagefile.sys is NOT present, & for the very reasons I state above & which the experiment showing explorer.exe GUI shell paging even IF free ram is present!

See here:

Microsoft Support

SYMPTOM:

"When you set the paging file (Pagefile.sys) on your computer to a size that is lower than the recommended size of 12 megabytes (MB) plus the amount of random access memory (RAM), a temporary paging file (Temppf.sys) may be created, and you may receive the following error message after you log on:
Limited Virtual Memory

Your system is running without a properly sized paging file. Please use the virtual memory option of the System applet in the Control Panel to create a paging file, or to increase the initial size of your paging file. Back to the top

CAUSE

This issue can occur when the temporary paging file uses a substantial amount of free space on the hard disk, and the remaining available hard disk space is less than the initial size of the paging file setting that you configured in Control Panel."

&

"The error message listed earlier in this article can occur when the initial paging file size is reduced to an amount considerably smaller than the recommended amount. Windows recognizes that the paging file size is insufficient and creates a temporary paging file of up to 20 megabytes in the Winnt\System32 folder. The System dialog box in Control Panel is then displayed, forcing you to address the paging file problem."

APPLIES TO

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
• Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
• Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
• Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
• Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
• Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
• Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51

*Smile

(And, yes, XP + Windows Server 2003 & even VISTA too... VM & how it works? Still the same for the MOST part, & definitely in the regards we have been discussing them in, here in this thread!)

APK

P.S.=> This is a result of NT-based OS' VMS based heritage, because VMS does the SAME THING for the most part... and, I have already proven you are ALWAYS paging, via a simple experiment you were free to try & witness...

Especially how in taskmgr.exe (with Page Fault column, Memory Size, VM Size, etc present in the PROCESSES tab) will show you that, for example, Explorer.exe your GUI shell is constantly generating pagefaults (access to pagefile)...

EVEN IF FREE UNUSED RAM IS PRESENT! apk