Re: Defragging page file?

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From: Colin Barnhorst (colinbarharst_at_msn.com)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:29:07 -0600

Diskeeper 9, like 8, defrags the page file during a boottime defrag run that
is set up manually. 

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"Alex Nichol" <alexn.mvpdts@ntlworld.delete.com> wrote in message 
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> Andrew E. wrote:
>
>>You can/should do that periodically,actually if you run other hds and have
>> them set to "let windows manage" in system properties or have them set 
>> for
>> the page file you'll see fragmented files that were unable to be 
>> defragged
>> because thier in/were in use when defragging.The trick is to set the hd 
>> with
>> "no page file" then click set 2X to set,when enabling,a restart will be
>>prompted
>> to verify you did this correctly.For details om page file,try search at
>>microsoft,
>
> Provided the initial size of the file is set adequate to cover normal
> needs (and on larger size RAM, say 512 MB up) it will almost certainly
> be excessive, and you start it up on a disk that is not fragmented, then
> it will be in one piece and will stay that way.  If the disk has free
> space in  fragments the inbuilt defrag tool will not consolidate them,
> nor will Diskeeper (unless they have changed policy in recent versions)
> though Perfect disk will.   The file might then be started in at least a
> partly fragmented state.
>
> Fragmentation of the file on the whole is over-hyped.  On a large modern
> RAM it has little actual traffic, and retrieval from it is essentially
> random, so fragmentation makes little difference.
>
> See my page www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm
>
> -- 
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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