Defragment question

[Tommy Flynn]

When I run Windows Defragmenter, I always get the message that some of the files
could not be defragmented. The file is: \windows\installer\2a5cc3.msp (10MB, 19
fragments). It's probably not important, but is there anything that I can do to
get this file defragmented?

 

[Alias~-]

When I run Windows Defragmenter, I always get the message that some of the files
could not be defragmented. The file is: \windows\installer\2a5cc3.msp (10MB, 19
fragments). It's probably not important, but is there anything that I can do to
get this file defragmented?

Did you try defragging again, right after the first time? If so, and it
didn't work, try it in Safe Mode.

Alias

 

[Tommy Flynn]

Did you try defragging again, right after the first time? If so, and it
didn't work, try it in Safe Mode.

Alias

I tried defragmenting 2 times in a row and still got the same result. I thought
about deleting the file and dismissed that as a bad idea. Why can't this file
be defragmented?

 

[LittleMoo]

Sometimes some files that you try to defragment are just a PITA.

So what to do about it? One word... Contig
You can get it here from Sysinternals:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Contig.html
It's a command line tool.

Here's a quick runthrough:
Extract contig to your desktop.
Go to Start -> Run, type in cmd and press enter.
Type in 'cd desktop' without the single quotes and press enter.
From here type this into the command prompt (what you pulled up with the cmd
command):
contig -v C:\Windows\installer\2a5cc3.msp
After you see the Summary: section you will be done defragmenting the file
(though it will still probably say that it has 1 fragment in the file, but
this is normal because it considers the whole file to be 1 fragment)

After this you can close out of the command prompt and delete the contig zip
file and program if you want to.

-Dan

 

[Nevermind]

I tried defragmenting 2 times in a row and still got the same result. I thought
about deleting the file and dismissed that as a bad idea. Why can't this file
be defragmented?

There are certain files which are running all the time when Windows is
running. Anything which is in use cannot be moved on the hard drive and
therefore cannot be defragmented. There is a free program called Page
Defrag which can be set to run at boot-up, before Windows starts, and
that can defragment those files which otherwise cannot be defragmented.
It can be found at: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html

 

[Rock]

When I run Windows Defragmenter, I always get the message that some of the
files
could not be defragmented. The file is: \windows\installer\2a5cc3.msp
(10MB, 19
fragments). It's probably not important, but is there anything that I can
do to
get this file defragmented?

For one thing don't worry about it too much. You could try running Defrag
from safe mode to see if that helps. Otherwise leave it be. There are good
3rd party defragmenters such as Diskeeper 10 and PerfectDisk but they are
not really worth the cost.