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I just found one of the most weird bugs I have seen in Windows. I needed to disable the pagefile in one of my partitions so I could change its letter. However, the dialog box is missing the set button, and seen as cutted in half, as shown in the image below.

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Some background info that might be usefull: This is in Windows 10 Pro and the install is not fresh. Windows is installed in a hard drive which was from an old laptop. This hard drive was simply removed from the laptop and put in a desktop.

I've already tried resizing the window with a program called ResizeEnable without success. I tried to use command line to disable pagefile (using basically this question: how to completely disable pagefile use wmic) without success - I get a "no instance available" when trying to manage the pagefile, even after creating a new one. I managed to extract the file "SystemPropertiesAdvanced.exe" from Win10 install DVD and tried to replace the one under C:\Windows\System32 with it. Windows would not let me do it and running the file from the desktop just led me to the same bug.

I am now out of ideas. I thought about changing the windows drive letters from Linux (I have an Ubuntu live CD and can burn a new one if needed). However all answers I found said it was impossible. So, I am accepting anything that allow me to disable pagefiles or other methods that allow me to change the device letter.

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Modify Pagefile Configuration from the Command Line

Q: How can I change the pagefile configuration from the commandline?

A: This is very useful on Server Core systems where no graphical interface is required. Here I create a new pagefile on the P: volume and delete the old pagefile:

wmic pagefileset create name="P:\pagefile.sys"

wmic pagefileset where name="P:\\pagefile.sys" set InitialSize=2048,MaximumSize=2048

wmic pagefileset where name="C:\\pagefile.sys" delete

Reboot the machine for the change to take effect. To list the pagefiles, use the command below:

wmic pagefile list /format:list

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