I just installed windows vista on a 4-way partitioned drive. The drive used to have windows 98 on C:\ partition, and windows 2000 on D:\ partition. Vista clobbered C:\, as expected, and it installed properly. However, it is now protecting the 2GB pagefile.sys (windows 2000 registry file) on the D:\ drive. I tried to delete the old, unused pagefile.sys using an administrator user login, and still Vista would not allow me to delete the file. I then tried to log in as Administrator, and the Vista Administrator file explorer would not even show me the D:\pagefile.sys when I checked "show all files, including hidden and system files". A 2GB file is too much clutter to just leave there, and I really would like to ask how to delete that unused pagefile.sys.
Anyhow, if anyone could offer me some assistance in getting rid of that file, I would be grateful. Thanks, Sam
P.S. I hope there IS a way to delete .sys files, given that some virus could potentially make tons of 50kB "x.sys" files, and users would otherwise not be able to delete them.
P.P.S. If I posted this to the wrong forum then plz recommend a better one, if you know of one.
Sorry but if you are not using Windows Live OneCare then you are off topic, this forum is dedicated to Windows Live OneCare, you can look for help and an answer here http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx I will be moving your post to the Off topic folder.
