Fresh install of 2000 on a new Dell computer.
system properties says that the pagefile is set to a minimum of 382MB and a max of 768 MB. A quick property check of the actual file confirms the size to be 382 MB. Unfortunately, the system states that only 20 MB of this is currently allocated. This number is locked at 20 MB. No amount of tweaking, deleting, moving, or size changing will allow the current allocation of the pagefile to increase. This makes it almost impossible to run any usefull program. Has anybody seen, heard, or dealt with this before. Please help, as I am at my wits end.

Thanks

BlaZeR2

P3 800
256 MB
GeForce 2 GTS
SBlive
3 Com NIC
WD 7200 RPM 40 GB
8x4x32 Burner

-all IDE

I remember having this problem myself once. God, I eventually gave up and reinstalled. I think I was on to something. I wanted to try changing the settings so that the page file is on another drive, then delete the bad page file. Reboot, then change the file back. At least it's just a theory.....