Your free space at 17% is minimal and means that larger files can be
difficult
to defragment. There may there may be not be a large enough single
area of free space in which to place the file.
To increase you free space on your C select Start, All Programs,
Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and
remove all but the latest System Restore points? Restore points can be quite
large.
You should use Disk CleanUp regularly to Empty your Recycle Bin and
Remove Temporary Internet Files. Whenever you remove redundant files you
should always run Disk Defragmenter by selecting Start, All Programs,
Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter.
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.
Are you using any Norton Utilities?
If your hard 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.
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. On your drive
5% 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%.
--
Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Shazzmuzik said:
Hi Quaoar ....
I am also having defrag problems....but I am wondering, does the moving of
msvcp80.dll to System32 only pertain to the use of Norton Windoctor? And
what
does it do exactly?
My problem is that I have 17% free space on my 20 gig C Drive...running
alot
of programs. I have deleted a few but I need the rest, pretty much.
I have an Asus M/B/ 28.1 Celeron CPU/ 512 DDR system , running WinXP Home
SP2.
I also have Nod32 AV... BitDefender 8... Registry Repair 2006...
SpywareDoctor 4.0.0.2618... Dustbuster XP... MS Office 2007 Beta.. IE7...
&
Windows Desktop Search 3.0 [which I think is slowing the system down a
bit,
not sure]
The Defrag seems to get to about 15%, then it ends, telling me it had
completed. But there are still alot of fragmented files, in particular a
large clump of it at what seems to be the end of the drive. What do you
think
that is? And how do I resolve this issue?
Thanks in advance
)
Regards..........Shazza
Quaoar said:
Use the search function to find the location of the dll file and move it
to the system32 folder. For all of your drives run chkdsk C: /f to
verify the drive properties (replace c: with d:, e:, etc.). Then start
the cleaning process for malware.
Q
