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Gerry
John
Thanks for the feed back.
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Regards.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Thanks for the feed back.
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Regards.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
G
Gerry
Pegasus
The Disk Defragmenter provided with Windows is perfectly adequate.
Some ways to create more free disk space.
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.
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. 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.
If your C 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.
cCleaner is a useful tool if used with care. The main drawback with
Disk CleanUp in XP is the need to run it in each User Profile -this
is corrected in Vista. Also cCleaner does a more thorough job
removing detritus Disk Clean Up passes by e.g. the many zero byte
files produced by Outlook Express.
--
Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Disk Defragmenter provided with Windows is perfectly adequate.
Some ways to create more free disk space.
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.
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. 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.
If your C 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.
cCleaner is a useful tool if used with care. The main drawback with
Disk CleanUp in XP is the need to run it in each User Profile -this
is corrected in Vista. Also cCleaner does a more thorough job
removing detritus Disk Clean Up passes by e.g. the many zero byte
files produced by Outlook Express.
--
Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
J
jsnapper2
Pegasus
The Disk Defragmenter provided with Windows is perfectly adequate.
Some ways to create more free disk space.
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.
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. 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.
If your C 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.
cCleaner is a useful tool if used with care. The main drawback with
Disk CleanUp in XP is the need to run it in each User Profile -this
is corrected in Vista. Also cCleaner does a more thorough job
removing detritus Disk Clean Up passes by e.g. the many zero byte
files produced by Outlook Express.
--
Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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If you defragment with PerfectDisk, you only need 5% of free space or
less (built-in and Diskeeper require 15-20%. PerfectDisk also
defragments metadata files that Diskeeper does not (e.g. $logfile,
etc.) and consolidates the free space.
G
Gerry
You have to pay for Perfect Disk. Whilst you may be able to defragment
with a lower percentage free space that is a mixed blessing. If you have
15-20%
free space the fragmentation will occurs less quickly than if you have
only 5%.
The best solution is to separate files which constantly get written to
from those
which are changed less frequently. This is an argument for keeping a
pagefile in it's
own partition but according to user there will be other files / folders
best
segregated from programme files. In my case the Outlook Express current
store
folder as distinct from archived messages.
--
Regards.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
with a lower percentage free space that is a mixed blessing. If you have
15-20%
free space the fragmentation will occurs less quickly than if you have
only 5%.
The best solution is to separate files which constantly get written to
from those
which are changed less frequently. This is an argument for keeping a
pagefile in it's
own partition but according to user there will be other files / folders
best
segregated from programme files. In my case the Outlook Express current
store
folder as distinct from archived messages.
--
Regards.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
J
jsnapper2
You have to pay for Perfect Disk. Whilst you may be able to defragment
with a lower percentage free space that is a mixed blessing. If you have
15-20%
free space the fragmentation will occurs less quickly than if you have
only 5%.
The best solution is to separate files which constantly get written to
from those
which are changed less frequently. This is an argument for keeping a
pagefile in it's
own partition but according to user there will be other files / folders
best
segregated from programme files. In my case the Outlook Express current
store
folder as distinct from archived messages.
--
Regards.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Ah, didn't know it was free or not free. You're right, PerfectDisk is
not, although it also optimizes the drive in the way you suggest -
frequently updated files together, etc., and consolidates the free
space.
U
Uncle Grumpy
jsnapper2 said:Ah, didn't know it was free or not free.
Doesn't say much for your recommendation then, does it?
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