Re: Defragmenting help needed
- From: Greg Wallace <GregWallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:08:01 -0700
Thanks for the info. I was able to use all of your tips. I set my System
Restore space to 200 mb. I only use it when I'm about to make some registry
changes, so it only needs to be able to hold that much data. I tested it out
by creating a restore point and it still left one out there from before, so I
think 200 mb will be plenty. I had a great many of those $NtUninstal...
files out there. Some were already compressed but many, many more were not,
so compressed all of those. Regarding Temporary Internet Files, I have 2
id's, Administrator and a limited account that I do all of my work under. I
do virtually no Web browsing under Administrator and yet it's temporary
internet setting was huge (multi-gig). I cut that down to 5 MB. On my
personal ID, I use more space for temp files than on Administrator, but it
was still set too large. I cut it down to 60 MB. Thanks for these tips.
Always nice to find places to save space.
--
Greg Wallace
"Gerry Cornell" wrote:
Greg.
Is your hard drive formatted as NTFS or FAT32? How large is the hard
drive and how much free space? In Windows Explorer right click on the
drive and select Properties to get this information.
Are you using Norton Protected Storage?
To increase you free space on your C select Start, All Programs,
Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and
remove all but the latest System Restore points? Restore points can be quite
large.
You should use Disk CleanUp regularly to Empty your Recycle Bin and
Remove Temporary Internet Files. Whenever you remove redundant files you
should always run Disk Defragmenter by selecting Start, All Programs,
Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter.
It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System Restore on
your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700 mb. Right
click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System Restore.
Place the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this time find the
slider and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and exit. When you get
to the Settings screen click on Apply and OK and exit.
If your hard drive is formatted as NTFS another potential gain arises with
your operating system on your C drive. In the Windows Directory of your
C partition you will have some Uninstall folders in your Windows folder
typically: $NtServicePackUninstall$ and $NtUninstallKB282010$ etc.
These files may be compressed or not compressed. If compressed the
text of the folder name appears in blue characters. If not compressed
you can compress them. Right click on each folder and select Properties,
General, Advanced and check the box before Compress contents to
save Disk Space. On the General Tab you can see the amount gained
by deducting the size on disk from the size. Folder compression is
only an option on a NTFS formatted drive / partition.
Another default setting on a large drive which could be wasteful is that for
temporary internet files especially if you do not store offline copies on
disk. The default allocation is 3% of drive. Depending on your attitude to
offline copies you could reduce this to 1% or 2%. In Internet Explorer
select Tools, Internet Options, General, Temporary Internet Files, Settings
to make the change. At the same time look at the number of days history
is held.
The default allocation for the Recycle Bin is 10 % of drive. On your drive
5% should be sufficient. In Windows Explorer place the cursor on your
Recycle Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and move the slider
from 10% to 5%.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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"Greg Wallace" <GregWallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I recently messed up by setting the space allocated for System Restore to
the
max. It didn't dawn on me at the time that I did that that all of that
space
would be allocated at the beginning of the disk, causing all of the system
files, etc. to be moved way down toward the inside of the disk. What this
has done is degraded the performance of my machine enormoulsy. Pulling up
any application, built-in (System Control Panel, Internet Explorer) or
user-installed (Norton, etc.) takes about 20 minutes. I had been
struggling
for close to a week trying to figure out what caused all of this data to
be
pushed down and only today realized that it was me having bumped up that
System Restore space that caused this problem. I have now reduced the
System
Restore setting to its minimum, but the disk defragmentor only moved a
small
portion of the files back to the first of the disk. Apparently, all it
does
is defragment but not compace. I want them all compacted down. I tried
Norton Speed Disk but it seems to think that the area that System Restore
had
taken up is still unavailable and won't move any data into it. Can
someone
tell me how to compact all of the files down to the beginning of the disk?
Assuming there's no way to do it with Windows built in funcions, is there
any
3rd party software that will do that? Once I ge tit all compacted down,
then
I should be able to run Speed disk to get it organized properly.
--
Greg Wallace
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