Re: Boot Defrag... Enabled But Not Working?
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 07/03/04
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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 12:55:05 +0100
SpamPup wrote:
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>One of the tweaks suggested is to make sure the feature is enabled that allows
>Win XP to do a Boot Defrag, by checking the Registry key:
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>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction
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>and making sure the value for "Enable" is set to "Y"
As pointed out by Greg Hayes (of Raxco, who make one of the third party
defraggers), the defrag that comes with XP just not do a boot time
defrag. At all. That tweak probably relates to a setting used by one
of the third party ones (and at a guess by Diskeeper) and the 'author'
of the tweak just made an unjustified assumption
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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