swap file gone

My system no longer creates or uses swap files.

there were some virues that did damage to the OS.

I can creat a swap file manually through DOS, but Windows only use my RAM
and never gets to the swap file.

I tried the automaitic as well as the do your own setting for creating the
swap in the CP. It will create swp files on any drive other than c, but
still not use one. --I can open about 5 internet pages before the system
freezes.

Is there a fix in the registry to tell windows to create swapfiles again (on
each drive, as selected 1 .swp/hdd), either automatically or if I choose the
drive?

--also, I found my .swp extension associated with a zone alarm file (za is
not on my machine). I was getting an error message that said the swp file
couldn't be opened because the zone alarm file it was registered to couldn't
be found.

Once, I have the swap files, recreating and working, do you know how or to
what the .swp extension should be assigned/registered? I have it set now to
"open" but nothing to use to open it.

Thanks,
Bob

Open C:\Windows\System.ini in notepad and post the contents of the
[386Enh] section.

Having *.swp associated with a program won't hurt anything, but if nothing
uses a *.swp, then you can just remove the association completely.



"sunslight" wrote in message ...
My system no longer creates or uses swap files.

there were some virues that did damage to the OS.

I can creat a swap file manually through DOS, but Windows only use my RAM
and never gets to the swap file.

I tried the automaitic as well as the do your own setting for creating the
swap in the CP. It will create swp files on any drive other than c, but
still not use one. --I can open about 5 internet pages before the system
freezes.

Is there a fix in the registry to tell windows to create swapfiles again (on
each drive, as selected 1 .swp/hdd), either automatically or if I choose the
drive?

--also, I found my .swp extension associated with a zone alarm file (za is
not on my machine). I was getting an error message that said the swp file
couldn't be opened because the zone alarm file it was registered to couldn't
be found.

Once, I have the swap files, recreating and working, do you know how or to
what the .swp extension should be assigned/registered? I have it set now to
"open" but nothing to use to open it.

Thanks,
Bob

thanks Bill.
I had a heck of a time getting any file to open with rght clck of the mouse.
In fact, they wouldn't--I had more than 5 windows open.
Finally got to "windows\system.ini. Here's the contents of
ENH--I did move the swap to drive I with 0 minimum, no limit to maximum (8
gigs)--just to see if that'd make a difference, since it was totally bombing
on C drive. Sometimes the file is made, it doesn't seem to be being used.
the CPU going at 100% (which is ok?) and my 512megs of ram are down to less
than 90 megs, nothing works. The temp on the CPU is 48C, so that's okay.

[386Enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
device=*dynapage
device=*vcd
device=*vpd
device=*int13
WPSLPT1=0
EMMExclude=C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF
keyboard=*vkd
display=*vdd,*vflatd
PagingDrive=I:




"Bill Blanton" wrote:

Open C:\Windows\System.ini in notepad and post the contents of the
[386Enh] section.

Having *.swp associated with a program won't hurt anything, but if nothing
uses a *.swp, then you can just remove the association completely.



"sunslight" wrote in message ...
My system no longer creates or uses swap files.

there were some virues that did damage to the OS.

I can creat a swap file manually through DOS, but Windows only use my RAM
and never gets to the swap file.

I tried the automaitic as well as the do your own setting for creating the
swap in the CP. It will create swp files on any drive other than c, but
still not use one. --I can open about 5 internet pages before the system
freezes.

Is there a fix in the registry to tell windows to create swapfiles again (on
each drive, as selected 1 .swp/hdd), either automatically or if I choose the
drive?

--also, I found my .swp extension associated with a zone alarm file (za is
not on my machine). I was getting an error message that said the swp file
couldn't be opened because the zone alarm file it was registered to couldn't
be found.

Once, I have the swap files, recreating and working, do you know how or to
what the .swp extension should be assigned/registered? I have it set now to
"open" but nothing to use to open it.

Thanks,
Bob

Perhaps you aren't totally clean yet. What viruses and what tools did you
use to determine you were infected? With 512MB of RAM, it should perform
fairly well. Is the boot process normal?

As far as the swap file, with no settings in the [386Enh] section it should
default to C:\Windows. Try adding the PagingFile value with the desired
drive letter.

PagingDrive=I:
PagingFile=I:\WIN386.SWP

Is I: a separate physical disk?


The EMMExclude= line looks corrupt also. It should just read

EMMExclude=C000-CFFF





"sunslight" wrote in message ...
thanks Bill.
I had a heck of a time getting any file to open with rght clck of the mouse.
In fact, they wouldn't--I had more than 5 windows open.
Finally got to "windows\system.ini. Here's the contents of
ENH--I did move the swap to drive I with 0 minimum, no limit to maximum (8
gigs)--just to see if that'd make a difference, since it was totally bombing
on C drive. Sometimes the file is made, it doesn't seem to be being used.
the CPU going at 100% (which is ok?) and my 512megs of ram are down to less
than 90 megs, nothing works. The temp on the CPU is 48C, so that's okay.

[386Enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
device=*dynapage
device=*vcd
device=*vpd
device=*int13
WPSLPT1=0
EMMExclude=C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF
keyboard=*vkd
display=*vdd,*vflatd
PagingDrive=I:




"Bill Blanton" wrote:

Open C:\Windows\System.ini in notepad and post the contents of the
[386Enh] section.

Having *.swp associated with a program won't hurt anything, but if nothing
uses a *.swp, then you can just remove the association completely.



"sunslight" wrote in message ...
My system no longer creates or uses swap files.

there were some virues that did damage to the OS.

I can creat a swap file manually through DOS, but Windows only use my RAM
and never gets to the swap file.

I tried the automaitic as well as the do your own setting for creating the
swap in the CP. It will create swp files on any drive other than c, but
still not use one. --I can open about 5 internet pages before the system
freezes.

Is there a fix in the registry to tell windows to create swapfiles again (on
each drive, as selected 1 .swp/hdd), either automatically or if I choose the
drive?

--also, I found my .swp extension associated with a zone alarm file (za is
not on my machine). I was getting an error message that said the swp file
couldn't be opened because the zone alarm file it was registered to couldn't
be found.

Once, I have the swap files, recreating and working, do you know how or to
what the .swp extension should be assigned/registered? I have it set now to
"open" but nothing to use to open it.

Thanks,
Bob

thanks Bill,

Sorry I couldn't respond right back to you--was up all night from pain due
to a sports type injury to the knee and had to go to bed.

I do appreciate your fast and good help.

I used AVG, Panda on line anti virus, Trend Micro on line anti-virus,
McAfee on line Anti-Virus, CWShredder, BHO demon, Ad aware, Spybot S&D, Pest
Patrol on-line, a few more (lol). Tried cleaning everything found. But I
found places in the registry that look like encrytion, but more likely to be
complete corruption.

At this point, I am running only 1 physical HDD. I partition magic C, make
it a bit larger and put the swap back on it.

Yes, the entries on the EnH look suspect to me also. I was hoping there
were registy and EnH settings I could put back to normal to get things going
again. If you know a url that show what's "normal," that would really help.

The amount of paging with 512 ram is virtually nill, even after the RAM is
near zero. Sometimes I get a popup telling "system resources are
dangerously low..." but not usually.

If I'm on the net and try to open another page, the url will resolve but the
page won't load. If I'm lucky, I can get back by using cntrl-alt-del,
usually though the system freezes and when I try a cntrl-alt-del, nothing
happens, it does a black-screen or I have to hard-reboot.

I am having some problems with boot, but the antivirus show the BiOS and
system boot files are clean.

After the run in with the hack and the trojan, I found upon boot as the
system went through its checks, it froze in scanreg and "fixing" a
problem--usually a 0 or 3% done.
I turned scanreg off and the system boots fine.

However, I notice that when certain Java scripts try to run, nothing
happens, the mouse rt. click doesn't work--Java is working though.
I tried fixing/uninstalling/reinstalling Sun Java several times but there
has been no change.--on a reinstall, I went into the registry and pulled out
all the Sun Java settings, so its reinstall would go correctly. That's when
I found the pages of registry that were nothing but gibberish. Anyway,
after reinstalling the new Sun Java, the scripting still doesn't work, but
Java does.

One site I go to that uses almost entirely, Java script, now causes the
video to drop to its lowest resolution. I can't get out of that except with
a hard boot.

So, in a long answer to a short question, yes, boot up is strange.

I can live with those things & work arounds, but not the system running out
of usable memory.

That's why I was hoping for a reg or sys.ini entry I could change/add/remove
that would restore Windows to actually putting info into the swap file, thus
freeing RAM, versus just resizing the pagefile.

Do you think a runb at "SFC" before I am forced to format/new install, might
do the trick? Or would it be faster to just reinstall & rebuild my programs
into the system?

I hope there's an answer to this instead of reinstall from scratch. I could
use my backups, but as we know W98 gathers crap and does need the reinstall
every so many years--maybe it's my turn

I sure appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Bob T


ill Blanton" wrote:

Perhaps you aren't totally clean yet. What viruses and what tools did you
use to determine you were infected? With 512MB of RAM, it should perform
fairly well. Is the boot process normal?

As far as the swap file, with no settings in the [386Enh] section it should
default to C:\Windows. Try adding the PagingFile value with the desired
drive letter.

PagingDrive=I:
PagingFile=I:\WIN386.SWP

Is I: a separate physical disk?


The EMMExclude= line looks corrupt also. It should just read

EMMExclude=C000-CFFF





"sunslight" wrote in message ...
thanks Bill.
I had a heck of a time getting any file to open with rght clck of the mouse.
In fact, they wouldn't--I had more than 5 windows open.
Finally got to "windows\system.ini. Here's the contents of
ENH--I did move the swap to drive I with 0 minimum, no limit to maximum (8
gigs)--just to see if that'd make a difference, since it was totally bombing
on C drive. Sometimes the file is made, it doesn't seem to be being used.
the CPU going at 100% (which is ok?) and my 512megs of ram are down to less
than 90 megs, nothing works. The temp on the CPU is 48C, so that's okay.

[386Enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
device=*dynapage
device=*vcd
device=*vpd
device=*int13
WPSLPT1=0
EMMExclude=C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF
keyboard=*vkd
display=*vdd,*vflatd
PagingDrive=I:




"Bill Blanton" wrote:

Open C:\Windows\System.ini in notepad and post the contents of the
[386Enh] section.

Having *.swp associated with a program won't hurt anything, but if nothing
uses a *.swp, then you can just remove the association completely.



"sunslight" wrote in message ...
My system no longer creates or uses swap files.

there were some virues that did damage to the OS.

I can creat a swap file manually through DOS, but Windows only use my RAM
and never gets to the swap file.

I tried the automaitic as well as the do your own setting for creating the
swap in the CP. It will create swp files on any drive other than c, but
still not use one. --I can open about 5 internet pages before the system
freezes.

Is there a fix in the registry to tell windows to create swapfiles again (on
each drive, as selected 1 .swp/hdd), either automatically or if I choose the
drive?

--also, I found my .swp extension associated with a zone alarm file (za is
not on my machine). I was getting an error message that said the swp file
couldn't be opened because the zone alarm file it was registered to couldn't
be found.

Once, I have the swap files, recreating and working, do you know how or to
what the .swp extension should be assigned/registered? I have it set now to
"open" but nothing to use to open it.

Thanks,
Bob

A few questions, in addition to what Bill has already posted:
Exactly how do you know the system is not using the swap file? If you have the
minimum set to 0, and the file becomes larger than that, Windows is increasing its
size in order to use it.

Where are you seeing that your "512megs of ram are down to less than 90
megs"....what are you using to view memory in use? Having 90MB free memory out of
512 is quite normal....Windows always uses as much RAM as it can for something.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"sunslight" wrote in message
...
thanks Bill.
I had a heck of a time getting any file to open with rght clck of the mouse.
In fact, they wouldn't--I had more than 5 windows open.
Finally got to "windows\system.ini. Here's the contents of
ENH--I did move the swap to drive I with 0 minimum, no limit to maximum (8
gigs)--just to see if that'd make a difference, since it was totally bombing
on C drive. Sometimes the file is made, it doesn't seem to be being used.
the CPU going at 100% (which is ok?) and my 512megs of ram are down to less
than 90 megs, nothing works. The temp on the CPU is 48C, so that's okay.

[386Enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
device=*dynapage
device=*vcd
device=*vpd
device=*int13
WPSLPT1=0

EMMExclude=C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C00
0-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF
keyboard=*vkd
display=*vdd,*vflatd
PagingDrive=I:




"Bill Blanton" wrote:

Open C:\Windows\System.ini in notepad and post the contents of the
[386Enh] section.

Having *.swp associated with a program won't hurt anything, but if nothing
uses a *.swp, then you can just remove the association completely.



"sunslight" wrote in message
...
My system no longer creates or uses swap files.

there were some virues that did damage to the OS.

I can creat a swap file manually through DOS, but Windows only use my RAM
and never gets to the swap file.

I tried the automaitic as well as the do your own setting for creating the
swap in the CP. It will create swp files on any drive other than c, but
still not use one. --I can open about 5 internet pages before the system
freezes.

Is there a fix in the registry to tell windows to create swapfiles again (on
each drive, as selected 1 .swp/hdd), either automatically or if I choose the
drive?

--also, I found my .swp extension associated with a zone alarm file (za is
not on my machine). I was getting an error message that said the swp file
couldn't be opened because the zone alarm file it was registered to couldn't
be found.

Once, I have the swap files, recreating and working, do you know how or to
what the .swp extension should be assigned/registered? I have it set now to
"open" but nothing to use to open it.

Thanks,
Bob

You turned scanreg off, or did you mean scandisk? If you're having disk
or file structure problems, that could be the root of the whole problem.

There are no registry settings for the swap file afaik, they are all in
the system.ini file. Did you try the PagingFile= setting I suggested?
I don't have much hope for that, but it would confirm that you are
pointing to the correct win386.swp file.

System resources has nothing directly to do with the swap file.

Java has nothing to do with javascript, other than in name. Search
Microsoft for the Windows Scripting Host update.

No on SFC. On a mature system, it can do more harm than good.




"sunslight" wrote in message news
I used AVG, Panda on line anti virus, Trend Micro on line anti-virus,
McAfee on line Anti-Virus, CWShredder, BHO demon, Ad aware, Spybot S&D, Pest
Patrol on-line, a few more (lol). Tried cleaning everything found. But I
found places in the registry that look like encrytion, but more likely to be
complete corruption.

At this point, I am running only 1 physical HDD. I partition magic C, make
it a bit larger and put the swap back on it.

Yes, the entries on the EnH look suspect to me also. I was hoping there
were registy and EnH settings I could put back to normal to get things going
again. If you know a url that show what's "normal," that would really help.

The amount of paging with 512 ram is virtually nill, even after the RAM is
near zero. Sometimes I get a popup telling "system resources are
dangerously low..." but not usually.

If I'm on the net and try to open another page, the url will resolve but the
page won't load. If I'm lucky, I can get back by using cntrl-alt-del,
usually though the system freezes and when I try a cntrl-alt-del, nothing
happens, it does a black-screen or I have to hard-reboot.

I am having some problems with boot, but the antivirus show the BiOS and
system boot files are clean.

After the run in with the hack and the trojan, I found upon boot as the
system went through its checks, it froze in scanreg and "fixing" a
problem--usually a 0 or 3% done.
I turned scanreg off and the system boots fine.

However, I notice that when certain Java scripts try to run, nothing
happens, the mouse rt. click doesn't work--Java is working though.
I tried fixing/uninstalling/reinstalling Sun Java several times but there
has been no change.--on a reinstall, I went into the registry and pulled out
all the Sun Java settings, so its reinstall would go correctly. That's when
I found the pages of registry that were nothing but gibberish. Anyway,
after reinstalling the new Sun Java, the scripting still doesn't work, but
Java does.

One site I go to that uses almost entirely, Java script, now causes the
video to drop to its lowest resolution. I can't get out of that except with
a hard boot.

So, in a long answer to a short question, yes, boot up is strange.

I can live with those things & work arounds, but not the system running out
of usable memory.

That's why I was hoping for a reg or sys.ini entry I could change/add/remove
that would restore Windows to actually putting info into the swap file, thus
freeing RAM, versus just resizing the pagefile.

Do you think a runb at "SFC" before I am forced to format/new install, might
do the trick? Or would it be faster to just reinstall & rebuild my programs
into the system?

I hope there's an answer to this instead of reinstall from scratch. I could
use my backups, but as we know W98 gathers crap and does need the reinstall
every so many years--maybe it's my turn

I sure appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Bob T


ill Blanton" wrote:

Perhaps you aren't totally clean yet. What viruses and what tools did you
use to determine you were infected? With 512MB of RAM, it should perform
fairly well. Is the boot process normal?

As far as the swap file, with no settings in the [386Enh] section it should
default to C:\Windows. Try adding the PagingFile value with the desired
drive letter.

PagingDrive=I:
PagingFile=I:\WIN386.SWP

Is I: a separate physical disk?


The EMMExclude= line looks corrupt also. It should just read

EMMExclude=C000-CFFF





"sunslight" wrote in message ...
thanks Bill.
I had a heck of a time getting any file to open with rght clck of the mouse.
In fact, they wouldn't--I had more than 5 windows open.
Finally got to "windows\system.ini. Here's the contents of
ENH--I did move the swap to drive I with 0 minimum, no limit to maximum (8
gigs)--just to see if that'd make a difference, since it was totally bombing
on C drive. Sometimes the file is made, it doesn't seem to be being used.
the CPU going at 100% (which is ok?) and my 512megs of ram are down to less
than 90 megs, nothing works. The temp on the CPU is 48C, so that's okay.

[386Enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
device=*dynapage
device=*vcd
device=*vpd
device=*int13
WPSLPT1=0
EMMExclude=C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF
keyboard=*vkd
display=*vdd,*vflatd
PagingDrive=I:




"Bill Blanton" wrote:

Open C:\Windows\System.ini in notepad and post the contents of the
[386Enh] section.

Having *.swp associated with a program won't hurt anything, but if nothing
uses a *.swp, then you can just remove the association completely.



"sunslight" wrote in message ...
My system no longer creates or uses swap files.

there were some virues that did damage to the OS.

I can creat a swap file manually through DOS, but Windows only use my RAM
and never gets to the swap file.

I tried the automaitic as well as the do your own setting for creating the
swap in the CP. It will create swp files on any drive other than c, but
still not use one. --I can open about 5 internet pages before the system
freezes.

Is there a fix in the registry to tell windows to create swapfiles again (on
each drive, as selected 1 .swp/hdd), either automatically or if I choose the
drive?

--also, I found my .swp extension associated with a zone alarm file (za is
not on my machine). I was getting an error message that said the swp file
couldn't be opened because the zone alarm file it was registered to couldn't
be found.

Once, I have the swap files, recreating and working, do you know how or to
what the .swp extension should be assigned/registered? I have it set now to
"open" but nothing to use to open it.

Thanks,
Bob

"Bill Blanton" wrote in message
...
snip
Java has nothing to do with javascript, other than in name. Search
Microsoft for the Windows Scripting Host update.
snip

Windows Script 5.6 for Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows NT 4.0:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

thanks for all the help., Bill, Glee.

I did try all the suggestions, but nothing worked to correct the problem.
I was able to track the size of the swap file by using the system monitor.
Then I used a program that let me read various languages, went into the swap
file and found it to be empty. Checking to make sure things were working, I
looked at an older swap that was still on the system but unused & I could see
data in it.

I kept working with this. It seemed like every change, made matters worse.
Now java doesn't work or at least it screws up my video--go to a site that is
mostly java, I think it's Java & not Javascript--as soon as the system hits
an applet, the video changes to the lowest resolution and it's quite
difficult to get it back.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to ditch this OS and reinstall. That looks
like the only way.

--After deltree of Windows folder and reinstall, there are so many loose
ends--wrong dlls, shortcuts missing, various access violations, it seems just
impossible to reconnect everything.

So, thank you for your help.
It's just one of those times that I'm going to have to back up and start
from scratch.

--oh sorry about taking so long to get back to your quick answers. My knee
was injuryed (i don't know if I told you) and it hurts like crazy. It
totally blew out on the way out of the doctor's office, even though I was
wearing a full-leg brace. And down on the hallway floor I went.

They had to get me in a wheel chair. Rush me to the orthopeduc surgeno, he
looked at the problem for about five minutes (this was on a Friday) and told
me that he would schedule an operation on the knee for first thing Monday.

that's been done now. Lots of pain when I walk, fuzzy headed from taking
pain meds. Otherwise I would have answererd right away.

I really and I mean that appreciate your help.

**before I ditch Win98 I do have a problem in the registry with 'search.'
Just for knowledge, I'm going to make a new thread on that. Watch for
it--maybe you'll have ideas/ OH --THANK YOU (shout) very much for
telling me to leave SFC alone. I thought it might screw things up, even
though in theory it's suppoised to fix problems.

Bob

"glee" wrote:

A few questions, in addition to what Bill has already posted:
Exactly how do you know the system is not using the swap file? If you have the
minimum set to 0, and the file becomes larger than that, Windows is increasing its
size in order to use it.

Where are you seeing that your "512megs of ram are down to less than 90
megs"....what are you using to view memory in use? Having 90MB free memory out of
512 is quite normal....Windows always uses as much RAM as it can for something.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"sunslight" wrote in message
...
thanks Bill.
I had a heck of a time getting any file to open with rght clck of the mouse.
In fact, they wouldn't--I had more than 5 windows open.
Finally got to "windows\system.ini. Here's the contents of
ENH--I did move the swap to drive I with 0 minimum, no limit to maximum (8
gigs)--just to see if that'd make a difference, since it was totally bombing
on C drive. Sometimes the file is made, it doesn't seem to be being used.
the CPU going at 100% (which is ok?) and my 512megs of ram are down to less
than 90 megs, nothing works. The temp on the CPU is 48C, so that's okay.

[386Enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
device=*dynapage
device=*vcd
device=*vpd
device=*int13
WPSLPT1=0

EMMExclude=C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C00
0-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF
keyboard=*vkd
display=*vdd,*vflatd
PagingDrive=I:




"Bill Blanton" wrote:

Open C:\Windows\System.ini in notepad and post the contents of the
[386Enh] section.

Having *.swp associated with a program won't hurt anything, but if nothing
uses a *.swp, then you can just remove the association completely.



"sunslight" wrote in message
...
My system no longer creates or uses swap files.

there were some virues that did damage to the OS.

I can creat a swap file manually through DOS, but Windows only use my RAM
and never gets to the swap file.

I tried the automaitic as well as the do your own setting for creating the
swap in the CP. It will create swp files on any drive other than c, but
still not use one. --I can open about 5 internet pages before the system
freezes.

Is there a fix in the registry to tell windows to create swapfiles again (on
each drive, as selected 1 .swp/hdd), either automatically or if I choose the
drive?

--also, I found my .swp extension associated with a zone alarm file (za is
not on my machine). I was getting an error message that said the swp file
couldn't be opened because the zone alarm file it was registered to couldn't
be found.

Once, I have the swap files, recreating and working, do you know how or to
what the .swp extension should be assigned/registered? I have it set now to
"open" but nothing to use to open it.

Thanks,
Bob

Oh, I forgot to mention. Yes, I meant "scanreg" fails. Scandisk works fine
and shows no errors. I ran it in DOS and the equivalent in Windows.

Scanreg /fix or just "scanreg" says it has found an error in System.dat. At
that point, about 0% in the scan, the system stops. No way out but hard boot.

The error message is that it is working on System.dat. I suppose it is
trashed.

This problem happened when I took a program at its word, that it could
compact the registry and that'd help all kind of things. Right. Instead, it
crashed everything and corrupted the registry.

-- anyway is there a way to repair the system.dat file? Scanreg says
it's starting to do that and goes completely dead. Can I replace the file?

I do have a good System.dat. Unfortunately, it is a couple of months old
but may work. It will be missing the most recent added system entries but
that may be better that having the computer freeze?,

My most recent backups' System.dat, suffered the same fate of being messed
up from the trying to compact the regristry.

bob

"sunslight" wrote:

thanks for all the help., Bill, Glee.

I did try all the suggestions, but nothing worked to correct the problem.
I was able to track the size of the swap file by using the system monitor.
Then I used a program that let me read various languages, went into the swap
file and found it to be empty. Checking to make sure things were working, I
looked at an older swap that was still on the system but unused & I could see
data in it.

I kept working with this. It seemed like every change, made matters worse.
Now java doesn't work or at least it screws up my video--go to a site that is
mostly java, I think it's Java & not Javascript--as soon as the system hits
an applet, the video changes to the lowest resolution and it's quite
difficult to get it back.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to ditch this OS and reinstall. That looks
like the only way.

--After deltree of Windows folder and reinstall, there are so many loose
ends--wrong dlls, shortcuts missing, various access violations, it seems just
impossible to reconnect everything.

So, thank you for your help.
It's just one of those times that I'm going to have to back up and start
from scratch.

--oh sorry about taking so long to get back to your quick answers. My knee
was injuryed (i don't know if I told you) and it hurts like crazy. It
totally blew out on the way out of the doctor's office, even though I was
wearing a full-leg brace. And down on the hallway floor I went.

They had to get me in a wheel chair. Rush me to the orthopeduc surgeno, he
looked at the problem for about five minutes (this was on a Friday) and told
me that he would schedule an operation on the knee for first thing Monday.

that's been done now. Lots of pain when I walk, fuzzy headed from taking
pain meds. Otherwise I would have answererd right away.

I really and I mean that appreciate your help.

**before I ditch Win98 I do have a problem in the registry with 'search.'
Just for knowledge, I'm going to make a new thread on that. Watch for
it--maybe you'll have ideas/ OH --THANK YOU (shout) very much for
telling me to leave SFC alone. I thought it might screw things up, even
though in theory it's suppoised to fix problems.

Bob

"glee" wrote:

A few questions, in addition to what Bill has already posted:
Exactly how do you know the system is not using the swap file? If you have the
minimum set to 0, and the file becomes larger than that, Windows is increasing its
size in order to use it.

Where are you seeing that your "512megs of ram are down to less than 90
megs"....what are you using to view memory in use? Having 90MB free memory out of
512 is quite normal....Windows always uses as much RAM as it can for something.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"sunslight" wrote in message
...
thanks Bill.
I had a heck of a time getting any file to open with rght clck of the mouse.
In fact, they wouldn't--I had more than 5 windows open.
Finally got to "windows\system.ini. Here's the contents of
ENH--I did move the swap to drive I with 0 minimum, no limit to maximum (8
gigs)--just to see if that'd make a difference, since it was totally bombing
on C drive. Sometimes the file is made, it doesn't seem to be being used.
the CPU going at 100% (which is ok?) and my 512megs of ram are down to less
than 90 megs, nothing works. The temp on the CPU is 48C, so that's okay.

[386Enh]
ebios=*ebios
woafont=dosapp.fon
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
device=*dynapage
device=*vcd
device=*vpd
device=*int13
WPSLPT1=0

EMMExclude=C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C00
0-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF,C000-CFFF
keyboard=*vkd
display=*vdd,*vflatd
PagingDrive=I:




"Bill Blanton" wrote:

Open C:\Windows\System.ini in notepad and post the contents of the
[386Enh] section.

Having *.swp associated with a program won't hurt anything, but if nothing
uses a *.swp, then you can just remove the association completely.



"sunslight" wrote in message
...
My system no longer creates or uses swap files.

there were some virues that did damage to the OS.

I can creat a swap file manually through DOS, but Windows only use my RAM
and never gets to the swap file.

I tried the automaitic as well as the do your own setting for creating the
swap in the CP. It will create swp files on any drive other than c, but
still not use one. --I can open about 5 internet pages before the system
freezes.

Is there a fix in the registry to tell windows to create swapfiles again (on
each drive, as selected 1 .swp/hdd), either automatically or if I choose the
drive?

--also, I found my .swp extension associated with a zone alarm file (za is
not on my machine). I was getting an error message that said the swp file
couldn't be opened because the zone alarm file it was registered to couldn't
be found.

Once, I have the swap files, recreating and working, do you know how or to
what the .swp extension should be assigned/registered? I have it set now to
"open" but nothing to use to open it.

Thanks,
Bob