the only idea I have is to click the "set" button after you have typed your pagefile size in...did you do that?  I changed the size of my pagefile and clicked only OK, and the settings reverted.  I changed the size and pressed "set", then OK and it kept the settings.
good luck
jeff

tried that but to no avail.......

if the settings also rever in safe mode, I wouldn't know how to fix it without reinstalling...
sorry
jeff

right a quick update.....the settings are OK in safe mode but not in normal

weird, do you have some sort of disk optimizer software or something installed that might me messing with the size of your page file?  Norton utilities, disk doctor or something like that?

HA!!  I've had the same thing happen, it comes from forgetting to click the SET button.

To fix this, change to system managed size.  Reboot.
Go back in, change to custom size, enter in the 4096 and click SET!!

Reboot. now it should "take" correctly.  That set button is a killer.

sci, we went over that in my first post, apparently its not the problem

Reboots needed in between tfjeff, I saw that, and had the same issue, unless I reset back to system managed, then rebooted, then went back to custom, then set, then rebooted.

weird, screwy windows

fraid not  sciwriter didnt work, however my system did power down of its own accord before i followed your instructions and it was set to 4095?!

have done a similar thing but using no pagefile and its now set to 4095....will it stay after a second reboot.....

nope its back to 1535........HELP

Deactivate hibernate, and move the pagefile.sys to another drive, to FORCE it to take.  Moving is a touchy scanario requiring several reboots.  First you need to add a pagefile.sys to a new drive, reboot, then remove the original from C (but only after you know the first has taken), reboot, and they you can add back the C as you want, reboot, and so forth.

Besides, a 4 GB page file slows the system down too much, you don't want this really.  This is one part of windows where you should let windows manage the page file.  It is not static, it expands it as it is needed, and windows knows you are picking a size too high for its needs or the RAM on the system.  I would leave it system managed.

Yeah, I was going to ask how much system memory you had and why you were creating such a large pagefile, it's probably really not needed.

1 gig

dont have a second drive.........wanted a static one cause it fragments less.....

"weird, do you have some sort of disk optimizer software or something installed that might me messing with the size of your page file?  Norton utilities, disk doctor or something like that?"

Yes i have norton utilities

try disabling norton utilities...

Did you manually add a registry key that maybe you forgot about?

"try disabling norton utilities..."

Uninstall??

"Did you manually add a registry key that maybe you forgot about?"

If you mean the local machine>control>current control ETC then yeah i tried that and it says 4096 or sometimes 4095

Im going to try setting it to 1535 and the changing it

Are you using FAT32 or NTFS?  Maybe the permissions on your C: drive no longer allows System to delete the current page file and/or create a newly resized one.  Have there been any reconfiguration of your NTFS permissions on this volume?

  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315270&Product=winxp

---Pam

have formatted the drive and now no problem.....thanks for your time

OK probably unknown to do this but o well:

It was NORTON ANTIVIRUS: One of the options was to scan on boot, tunred it off.....no probs.........

tfjeff theres 50 points waiting for u for suggesting Norton

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  tfjeff         go here,    https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21125697/50-Points-For-tfjeff-For-Q-21070626.html  I was looking around and found this, with no refence here for you.

reference was last thing i sed o_0

True, sorry I didn't notice it as it was not posted as a link. Hopefully he'll see it and get his deserved points.

yep he now has...... thanks woodendude...

thanks to both of you, I appreciate it.
jeff