Re: defragmenting

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Why volumes become fragmented
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/defrag_why_fragmented.mspx

All you have to do is open a Word doc, do nothing else and close it; it's
fragmented.

You have very few choices.

You can never boot your machine, that way nothing will get fragmented.

You can purchase PerfectDisk.
http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/

PerfectDisk can consolidate free space which makes it take longer for files
to fragment. If sufficient contiguous free space is not available any file
just created is created already fragmented.

Everything you wanted to know about the page file...
Virtual Memory in Windows XP
by Alex Nichol
(MS-MVP - Windows Storage Management/File Systems)
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:erNM3eiQFHA.3384@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
R & J Westney <kermit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
> What are the major culprits that cause fragmentation in a drive and can
> these files be allocated to their own partition? I'm thinking
> particularly of image files in Photoshop and other image processing apps
> and temp internet files.
>
> I've decided to use 'C' for both the OS and apps and will have a separate
> partition for data files. I had separate partitons for the OS and apps in
> my experimental setup but found 100's of pieces of apps still ended up in
> 'C'. There seemed little point in keeping them in separate partitions - or
> am I missing something??
>
> On the other hand, if particular processes cause fragmentation and if
> these can be isolated to a separate partition, that does seem to make
> sense. I've read that a page file is one such candidate. If so, where
> is it, should it be moved and, if so, where to? What other parts of the
> OS or apps cause fragmnetation and can any of these sensibly be moved to
> a partition that can then be more regularly partitioned than the others?
>
> RoS

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