Is there a way to make windows manage the paging file without crashing?
 

My laptop has 4gb of ram but I sometimes max it out all to hell, so, a paging file is necessary. I keep it defragmented (including the pagefile using boot time defrag) and to a set size, but I end up with the thing crawling when it's paging heavily. I tried creating a 1gb virtual drive for the paging file, where 3gb is for the system and then a "virtual drive" takes up 1gb of ram to use exclusively for the paging file....

The PROBLEM is that when the ram is full and it's paging out over a gig, it gets confused and BSODs out on me.

Is there a way to fix that?
I don't want to have to buy an SSD. It's an older K50IJ laptop.. core2duo... 4gb ram max.. but it's a workhorse and more than fine for day to day use. I would just like to be able to max the ram out all to hell without problems.

I would think with a 1gb set paging file size, it should page out to it overwriting anything that is already there, but I guess it just ends up getting too damned full... And if there is nowhere to go it just crashes.. right? Then if I let it put a pagefile on the HD, back to crawling

Try

Click on the "Start" button.
Select "Run"
Type the following and press "OK"

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

This should clear your ram without rebooting.

Your problem is limiting the page file size sounds like.

I used to work for Apple writing their Kbase articles on support.apple.com, and those things crash as much as Windows and only look better because of a nice case and little things like Apple setting all monitors to 80+Hz (CRT days..) :upsidedow

Maybe try this:

1. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe [or Regedit.exe]).
2. Change the data value of the ClearPageFileAtShutdown value in the following registry key to a value of 1:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management

If the value does not exist, add the following value:
Value Name: ClearPageFileAtShutdown
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

3. Restart

If you have 4 gigs of ram but limit the pagefile to 1 gig, no wonder it crashes. Set it to a fixed size of 6gig (6044-6044)