PRB: "Value Out of Range Error" Error Message When You Change Page File Settings (303800)

CAUSE

Windows Management Instrumentation verifies that there is enough free disk space on the drive that hosts the page file to accommodate a file of the requested maximum size, regardless of the space that is occupied by the existing page file. For example, you receive the error message if you run the following sample code in Visual Basic or Visual Basic Script to try to increase the initial size of each page file on the local system by 2 megabytes (MB):

Dim objWin32PageFileSetting
Dim objWbemObjectSet

Set objWbemObjectSet = GetObject("winmgmts:").InstancesOf("Win32_PageFileSetting")

For Each objWin32PageFileSetting In objWbemObjectSet
   objWin32PageFileSetting.InitialSize = objWin32PageFileSetting.InitialSize + 2    
   objWin32PageFileSetting.Put_  '// may cause error -2147217365 "Value out of range"

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You also receive the error message if either of the following conditions is true:

• The specified minimum size is greater than the specified maximum size.
• The specified minimum size is less than 2 MB.