I recently did a "1-click maintenence" with TuneUp Utilities 2007 and it recommended that I decrease the paging size to boost computer speed so I accepted the change and restarted my computer. An error popped up saying there was not enough memory(?) and that I should go to Control Panel --> System --> Advanced --> Performance Settings --> Advanced --> Change Virtual Memory.

I didn't know what "total paging size for all drives" I should have chosen so I just selected custom size and restarted my laptop. The problem is that Windows now will not load. It gives me the option to Start my computer normally, Load Known Good Configuration (your most recent settings that worked), SAFE mode, Safe mode with command prompt, and Safe mode with networking. I tried all of them and none let me start up windows. I then tried clicking f12 at startup, but that wouldn't work either. So my only option I guess would be to change some setting by clicking f10 at startup, but I have no idea what option to change. I loaded the default settings, but the laptop still won't load Windows.

I'm running Windows XP on the laptop.Choose safemode. Sometimes it takes awhile to load. Be patient.
Then travel to Control Panel/System/Advanced/Performance and you will see the swapfile settings...for now set both the lower and upper at 768MG.
Re-BOOT and you should be good to go...I tried all three variations of safe mode, but it takes be back to the load up SCREEN and asks me to choose again.what does the last good known configuration do to your computer? Have you tried that?

Selecting last known good configuration also takes me back to the load up screen and asks me to choose again.Try the suggestion listed on following website:
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Windows-XP-3282/boot-XP-Safe-Mode.htm


It might help, although solution is for different issue. Let us know how it goes if you do try it out. 1. Disable automatic restart on system failure.

If you're using Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), the Windows Advanced Options Menu you keep going to should have the following item:

Disable automatic restart on system failure

Select it and hopefully you'll get Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) on next restart with error message text and numbers. Copy the message text and numbers exactly and post them here. It's frequently possible to search Microsoft Knowledge Base and Internet on "exact" substrings of text for problem resolutions.

By default, if a serious system error occurs while Windows is attempting to load the operating system it attempts to display an error message and then automatically restarts. If you break the restart cycle there may be a BSOD that you can read.

I don't think the option exists on Windows Advanced Options Menu of earlier versions of Windows XP (original, SP1). If I'm wrong, someone please correct me so that I get it right next time.


2. Memory. So... How much memory does the laptop have? 256 MB, 512 MB, or 1 GB?


3. Hard Drive. How is your hard drive set up, i.e. do you normally see just one logical drive,"C:"? Do you know what the storage capacity of the hard drive is and how much free space was available on drive "C:" (in MBytes or GBytes)?

If your laptop came pre-installed with the operating system, I'm wondering if there's a "hidden" recovery partition on that hard drive, although I can't say yet how that would apply to the current problem.


4. Custom Size of Swap File. Do you recall what the value(s) for the custom size were and whether it was for the "C:" drive?


If you have the bootable Installation CD, boot and press any key to start the Windows Installation Interface, and you will select Install mode, then, you'll repair over the present OS. It'll RESTORE the OS Kernel and could fix your problem.

If you don't have de Windows Installation CD, try to find this software Hiren's Boot CD http://www.hiren.info/, here you have the downloable link http://www.loranbase.com/var/attachments/Hirens.BootCD.9.2_www.loranbase.com.zip. Uncompress it and burn the ISO file into a CD, or you could apply the detailled instructions published on the Hiren's Web site to configure the USB boot mode.

On this app. Cd, you could use too many tools to solve diferents troubles.