It seems that every computer I work on has this issue, and I always forget how to fix it and have to go searching again... so as much for me as for you:
At boot time, I get an error in my System event log:
The PMEM service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.
The
answer I found over at Annoyances.org works:
- Run
regedit
- Browse to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PMEM\ and find the ImagePath key
- The value will be something like
\??\\C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\PMEMNT.SYS - change it to a valid version of that path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\PMEMNT.SYS
- Do
net start pmem at a command prompt to get the service running.
If you don't have
PMEMNT.SYS on your machine, you can just disable the service instead:
- Run
regedit
- Browse to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PMEM\ and find the Start key
- Change the value to
4 to disable the service.
- Next time you restart your computer, the service won't start up so it won't check for the
PMEMNT.SYS file.