Thread: Getting rid of the annoying message because of a small swap file

Since the time you have changed the authorizations of some drives, you get a message with the system-start 'The System either has no swap file or the swap file is too small'. But you know that it Is big enough.

This error message indicates that the system account does not have the necessary rights for the management of the swap file. You have probably changed the rights to the system drive to increase security and while doing so, blocked the system account by mistake, This can happen, if you remove the account 'ANYONE' from the authorizations and for instance, grant access as 'Administrators' only to your account or group. Since the system account belongs to the 'ANYONE' group, you have also deactivated that.

To solve the problem, you grant the. system the necessary rights. For that, restart the computer in safe mode. During the boot process, keep the [F8] key pressed and select the corresponding option with the arrow keys. As soon as Windows starts, open Windows Explorer and select the drive with the swap file in the folder dialog, i.e, usually, 'C', You must change the authorizations for the entire drive, since the Security tab is not displayed for the file 'pagefile.sys'. For that, right-click on the drive symbol and select 'Properties'. Switch to the 'Security' tab and click on 'Add', Then enter 'SYSTEM' and click on 'OK'. Now again, click 'Add', enter 'Administrators' and click 'OK' once again. While doing so, do not confuse the group name 'Administrators' with the user 'Administrator'.

Now select the entry 'SYSTEM' in the group overview. Then next to 'Full access', activate the option in the column 'Allow'. The remaining options are selected automatically. Select the group 'Administrators' and grant it Full access as well. Confirm the changes one after the other with 'Accept' and 'OK'. After restarting the system, the swap file should function properly again.