Disk Defrag report

[Headtheball]

Could somebody analyse a defrag report for me and tell me how to correct it?

Volume size = 27.93GB
cluster size = 16kb
Used space = 9.26GB
Free space = 18.67GB
% Free + 66%

Total Fragmentation =8%
File Fragmentation = 16%
free space fragmentation = 0%


Total files = 41,224
av file size = 185KB
total fragmented files = 14
Total excess fragments = 62
Average fragments per file = 1.00

Pagefile size =1.5GB
Total fragments = 886

Toatal folders = 4162
Fragmented folders =15
excess folder fragments =39

Files that cannot be defragmented

Fragments File size Files that cannot be defragmented
17 1.024MB \windows\memory.DMP
4 62kb
\windows\system32\wbem\logs\wbemprox.log
3 4mb \windows\internet
Logs\tvdebug.log
6 814kb
\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-bootfaad.pf

There are loads of others but it would take me a while to type them all out,
I can do this if someone is prepared to help me sort this out.Many thanks

 

[Wesley Vogel]

When you plan on running Defrag, go offline.
Open Task Manager and End Process on everything you can.
Defrag cannot defrag files that are in use.

Navigate to:
C:\windows\memory.DMP
and delete the dumps. They are doing *you* no good.

In fact....
You can disable this.
Right click My Computer | Properties | Advanced tab | Under Startup and
Recovery |
Settings button | Under System Failure | UNCheck: Write an event to the
system log | Under Write debugging information | Select (None) | OK | Apply|
OK
Write an event to the system log = dumprep0-k

C: \windows\internet Logs\tvdebug.log is from Zone Alarm.
tvdebug.log can't be defragged if in use. Stop Zone Alarm while
running Defrag.

 

[Headtheball]

Hi Wes,
Thanks again for your help buddy, when I navigate to C:\ windows\memory.DMP
it is just a file that can't be read, do you mean to delete the whole file
or just the information contained within it? I tried opening it with wordpad
but it just hung (not responding). I disabled ZA but there are so many
processess that I didn't know what they are so I left them alone. I
unchecked write an event to log and clicked on none under write debugging.
I then defragged and got a message 17 fragments in Memory.dmp. There is
still a lot of Red in my defrag report, how do I clean this up?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Hello,

To make a long story short, IMHO, dumps and dumpcheck is a waste of the
average computer user's time. Best left to people way smarter than you or
I.

Just delete the info in memory.DMP. I don't even have that folder.

ZA has vsmon.exe and zonealarm.exe Make sure that you go offline, so that
no bogies get in while ZA isn't running.

Run Defrag again and see what happens.

Memory.dmp can't be defragmented. Just found this out.
It's on the list here:

Files That You Cannot Defragment
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_ldtg.asp

And don't worry about defragging the paging file, that's always in use and a
waste of time worrying about it.