Extreme III and XP

[tim S]

I have the following anomalies with a San Disk Extreme III card
and Windows XP SP-3 in my X40. Anyone else?

No pagefile, one has to be created on each boot. Not a difficult
process, pushing Alt+Ctrl+Del creates one immediately.

Windows doesn’t recognize me as a System Administrator, which I am, so no Windows updates.
Even logging on as ‘Administrator’ doesn’t help.

No automated Disk Clean Up.

In truth I’m not sure I care about any of the above but it would be
nice if someone here knew how to take care of them.

Tim S

[tim S]

Well it took a while but everything seems to work Windows-wise after installing ATCFWCHG.COM.
Following a Wiki link in a reply on this forum, I found out that this utility actually existed. Apparently San Disk used to give out this program freely but stopped about 2 years ago. After a deep, and I mean deep, Google search I finally found a working link and got the program.
It's a tiny DOS utility that obviously requires being in a DOS environment to do its thing, which was the main hurdle I needed to get over. To get into true native DOS I use a Win 98 boot disk but it doesn't recognize NFTS partitions nor does it recognize CF cards!
I copied the utility onto another floppy, put my original 60Gig drive into the main slot and put my CF card into a hard drive adapter and then into the CD/DVD slot. I put the Win98 boot disk into a USB floppy drive and fired up the laptop. The boot disk eventually got me to an A:\ prompt. I removed the floppy and replaced it with the Utility Floppy and typed ATCFWCHG.COM /S /F. The /S is for the secondary drive, I forget what the /F means. Anyway it decompiled
in a fraction of a second, I got PASS in huge letters on the screen and that was that.
Now I don't have to press Ctrl+Alt+Del to boot into Windows, I get Windows updates, I have Disk Clean, I have system restore.
As I feared, 8Gigs is a little small now all these features are activated!
Tim S