Re: disk defragmentation

JD

I am not clear why you are encountering problems. A 280 gb hard drive
with 80% free disk space should not be creating difficulties.

How large is your pagefile -minimum and maximum? Is it showing as a
solid green block or as many splinters? Green represents unmoveable
files. If splintered this is not helpful.

What space is allocated to system restore? Right click your My Computer
icon on the Desktop and select System Restore. The default setting is
12% which if unaltered is 33.6 gb.
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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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JD wrote:
Hi ctowers,

Thanks for your reply. I just downloaded ScanDefrag after reading
your reply and then tried it over last night. This morning, when I
turned on my computer, guess what? The XP's task bar on the screen
bottom which usually hosts the notification area and tool bars such
as "quick launch", "Windows Media Player" were totally messed up. It
took me not a long time to recover it to some degree. Did you have
such an experience? In ScanDefrag, I also set the option for "Page
File and Registry Defragment". ScanDefrag will then invoke
PageDefrag. I think PafeDefrag may be at fault. I wonder whether it
messes up other things causing problems that may show up later.

Any help is much appreciated.

By the way, my hard drive is defragmented in a much better way after
running ScanDefrag. That's the bright side.

Tony

"ctowers" <ctowers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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JD wrote:
Hi,

It seems that XP's disk defragmentation tool doesn't work well when
too many fragmented files exist. Most of time I need to manually
run the tool several times to get improvement step by step. How
come it doesn't provide an extensive feature consuming more time
but getting the job done automatically. Besides, it always end up
some fragmented files even there is still lots of disk memory. Can
it just compact those files by relocation? Your suggestions and
opinions are much appreciated.
By the way, another disadvantage is that XP cannot schedule an auto,
periodical defragmentation, if I am not mistaken.


Have you looked at ScanDefrag? It will do most of what you're asking
for, including scheduling.
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