Resolved Paging file message at start

Hello,

this is my first message ever on this BBS, and I'm a PC-beginner, so bear with me. Everytime I startup my laptop, I get a small screen asking to set the size of the paging file (go to control panel > system > advanced system settings > advanced > performance > advanced : this is the screen I get every time).
Changing the values for the paging file size is possible, but these parameters are apparantly reset to zero every time at start-up, and the screen reappears. The strange thing is I have two identical laptops, where one does not display this screen, and has a non-zero paging file.
What can I do ? (I have googled this for hours but to no avail).
Thanks for all your feedback.

Pierre
Belgium
Dell Latitude 6620, windows 7 Professional

 

Agree with Evan. Let Windows manage it.

 

Thanks for the reply, but... this is exactly what I have been doing dozens of times, but the system doesn't keep my input. Does this have anything to do with 'authority' (or permissions or ...) ?

Pierre

 

You may have something eating it up. Malware/Spyware or something else. Have you set it then don't do anything else and reboot?

 

Yes : check two boxes in that panel and restart right away : the panel reappears without the values I have set ?

 

What 2 boxes?

 

Whatever the message you are getting, Windows is NOT generating it. Windows error messages are very generic. You may get a Virtual Memory is Low kind of warning, but its the first time I have heard that Windows is telling you what to do & how to do it.

I would check for malware as already suggested.

 

"automatically manage paging file size for all drives" and "system managed size" : I guess those two have to be checked, but whenever I do that and restart the pc, they are unchecked again (while "no paging file" is rechecked). When I input custom sizes in MB, these are also erased after restart.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, but this seems to sophisticated for me : I don't want to mess up even more of my pc. I have checked which programs run at start-up, but they all look very 'official' to me (Microsoft, Dell, Intel,...).

 

Done that, everything ok.

 

Pierre, have WindowsBBS's malware analyst take a look...

Read this post, then post the requested log(s) in the Malware and Virus Removal forum.

 

problem solved

It just went away... No more messages, I didn't do anything. Thanks everyone.