Limited size virtual memory

[drbibberr]

When I log on to a Win 2000 pro PC I receive following error: Limited size virtual memory and loggs off. I can't login to change my pagefile, not with ERD commander and not in safe mode. I already changed the pagesize in the registry with the ERD commander without success. Does anybody know how to create a new pagefile.sys in Dos mode because I think that the the pagefile is corrupt.
Thks,

Stefan

 

[wolluf]

Can't you delete the pagefile with ERD commander? (windows should then create a new one on boot)?

PS. Is you pagefile on your system drive (eg C or is it somewhere else?

 

[thefourthwall]

stefan,

sounds like a registry problem. i encountered the same issue last week & solved it finally. in my case i logged in to the pc in question and got the warning message about the paging file, but the pc was on the network, so
from another box, i used regedt32.exe to connect to open the crippled pc's registry.
went to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version
\Winlogon\Userinit:Reg_SZ:C:\WINNT\system32\userinit.exe
i changed that to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Winlogon\Userinit:Reg_SZ:userinit.exe
i logged in again to the crippled pc (it let me in this time) and started regedit & went to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices. i right clicked \dosdevices\c and renamed to, i don't know, z, maybe? so it reads \dosdevices\z now. then i renamed \dosdevices\d to \dosdevices\c and restarted the box.

kinda long-winded, but it worked!


-lawrence

 

[drbibberr]

Thks a lot!!!!