defrag in xp home edition

[Guest]

When I run analyze in the defrag utility, it says to defrag. So I do. But
then I can analyze again and it says I need to defrag again. Keeps saying
this? Is something wrong with my utility? It doesnt give me any errors and
says it is completed at the end of each defrag I run. I have more than 15%
free space....65% to be exact. Baffled in Tacoma

 

[Rock]

When I run analyze in the defrag utility, it says to defrag. So I do.
But
then I can analyze again and it says I need to defrag again. Keeps saying
this? Is something wrong with my utility? It doesnt give me any errors
and
says it is completed at the end of each defrag I run. I have more than
15%
free space....65% to be exact. Baffled in Tacoma

What files are not being defragged? The inbuilt program does have it's
limitations. Also you can try running it in safe mode. You don't have to
worry too much about fragmentation. For most users defrag once a month and
you're ok.

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

When I run analyze in the defrag utility, it says to defrag. So I do.
But then I can analyze again and it says I need to defrag again. Keeps
saying this? Is something wrong with my utility? It doesnt give me
any errors and says it is completed at the end of each defrag I run. I
have more than 15% free space....65% to be exact.

Run "PageDefrag" in addition:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/PageDefrag.mspx

 

[Poprivet]

When I run analyze in the defrag utility, it says to defrag. So I
do. But then I can analyze again and it says I need to defrag again.
Keeps saying this? Is something wrong with my utility? It doesnt
give me any errors and says it is completed at the end of each defrag
I run. I have more than 15% free space....65% to be exact. Baffled
in Tacoma

If you had a lot of fragmentation, that wouldn't be unusual. If you haven't
run defrag in a long time it could take two or three runs to get everything
straightened out.

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[Poprivet]

What files are not being defragged? The inbuilt program does have
it's limitations. Also you can try running it in safe mode. You
don't have to worry too much about fragmentation. For most users
defrag once a month and you're ok.

That's not what he's talking about; read the post; he's being told it needs
to be defragged. He didn't ask about files that don't/won't defrag.

Safe Mode is a good suggestion though.

 

[Rock]

That's not what he's talking about; read the post; he's being told it
needs to be defragged. He didn't ask about files that don't/won't defrag.

Safe Mode is a good suggestion though.

You don't know that's why the message is coming up.