Paul
How long is it since you last ran Disk Defragmenter?
Are you carrying out necessary preliminaries before you run Disk
Defragmenter ? Firstly you need to compact your Outlook Express files.
In Outlook Express place the cursor on Local Folders and select File,
Work Offline followed by File, Folder, Compact All. Do not attempt to
interupt or stop the process until it has completed. Close Outlook
Express when it has completed. As an aside your Outlook Express folders
are too large and you will encounter folder corruption and loss of
messages if you do not take measure to resolve that situation.
Next you need to run Disk Clean Up.
Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to
Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Also
select Start, All Programs, accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp,
More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System
Restore point. Run Disk Defragmenter.
A better programme than Disk CleanUp is cCleaner but note that cCleaner
will not handle System Restore points. Removing older restore points
should help get Disk Defragmenter to work better.
http://www.ccleaner.com/download
Your pagefile is causing problems as it has 18 fragments scattered
across the drive breaking up the free space. I suspect you have set
Windows to manage you pagefile. Whilst this is commonly recommended, a
fixed minimum = maximum pagefile avoids this problem but a completely
contiguous pagefile can be problematic to create where more than 50% of
the drive / partition is already occupied. I suggest you set the
pagefile to zero, run Disk Defragmenter, restart the computer and
recreate the pagefile.
Some other things to consider.
The default allocation to System Restore is 12% 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.
A default setting 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. Change to
5%, which 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%. However, try to avoid letting it get
too full as if it is full and you delete a file by mistake it will
bypass the Recycle Bin and be gone for ever.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Here are the defrag results:
Volume (C
Volume size = 37.25 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 24.21 GB
Free space = 13.04 GB
Percent free space = 35 %
Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 11 %
File fragmentation = 21 %
Free space fragmentation = 1 %
File fragmentation
Total files = 143,561
Average file size = 395 KB
Total fragmented files = 14
Total excess fragments = 18,157
Average fragments per file = 1.12
Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 672 MB
Total fragments = 18
Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 9,201
Fragmented folders = 1
Excess folder fragments = 0
Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 221 MB
MFT record count = 153,780
Percent MFT in use = 67 %
Total MFT fragments = 4
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Fragments File Size Files that cannot be defragmented
9 266 MB \Documents and Settings\Paul\My
Documents\aatemp\Adobe\Data1.cab
170 275 MB \Documents and Settings\Paul\My
Documents\aatemp\StorageCraft\ShadowProtect_3.3.zip
773 276 MB \Documents and Settings\Paul\Local
Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{C668DDE7-8A20-4FD6-85AC-7E17A35456BD}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\ - a - Inbox.dbx
22 313 MB \Documents and Settings\Paul\My
Documents\Downloads\ShadowProtect_3.5.zip
311 415 MB \Documents and Settings\Paul\My
Documents\aatemp\ShadowProtect_3.3\ENU_ShadowProtect3.x.iso
3,997 415 MB \Documents and Settings\Paul\My
Documents\aatemp\StorageCraft\ShadowProtect_3.3\ENU_ShadowProtect3.x.iso
7,995 520 MB \Documents and Settings\Paul\Local
Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop Search\rpm.cf1
3,226 585 MB \Program
Files\Dvd-to-mpeg\TEMP\TMP00007F4507.mpg
1,610 644 MB \Documents and Settings\Paul\Local
Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{C668DDE7-8A20-4FD6-85AC-7E17A35456BD}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\ - f - friends & relatives.dbx
