more defrag questions...

[RJK]

A little while ago I defragged my drive d: where XP Pro lives.
It's swapfile lives on a different drive, as does tmp temp and IE6's TIF
directory, and OE6's message store directory.

Just out of interest I rebooted and ran defrag and it did it all over again,
instead of just whistling through and saying "done," like would have
happened in W98. It seems that XP's defragger.exe is always unhappy with
what is just did !

Also, my system managed swapfile on g: is about 786 mb's in size, I could
have sworn that a week or so ago I set a 2-60mb swapfile on d: ,"...for
emergencies..." that JE mentions on his site, because I felt like fiddling
with something.

While I was having a look around, tonight, the d:\pagefile.sys was gone. So
I set it again, looked in the root directory of d: and there was
pagefile.sys ....2048kb in size. I rebooted, and checked - again it's
gone. So, is XP Pro deleting the 2-60mb swapfile in d: because it doesn't
need it, or is something wrong?

Also there's a 523,812 byte sized hiberfil.sys in the root dir. of d: that
I'm sure wasn't there before. Is hiberfil.sys supposed to be there? (The
file icon for it, in Windows explorer is very faint and the hidden flag
won't clear, so the system flag must be set well.)

regards, Richard

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Is hiberfil.sys supposed to be there? This file is associated with hibernation. If a computer is not enabled for hibernation the file is not there - none on my computer.

No "Hibernate" Button Is Present After You Click "Turn off Computer"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;291790&Product=winxp

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[Kelly]

Hi Richard,

In Windows Explorer, go to Tools/Folder Options/View: Check the first and
uncheck the second:

Show Hidden Files and Folders and
Hide Protected Operating System Files

To remove the greyed out appearance.

As per the rest:

If you do not use hibernation, make sure you do not have it enabled, which
reserves disk space equal to your RAM. If you have a hidden file on the root
directory of your C-drive called hiberfil.sys, hibernation is enabled.

To remove that file, go to Display Properties, Screensaver, Power, Hibernate
tab, and uncheck the Enable hibernation box.



Is hiberfil.sys supposed to be there? This file is associated with
hibernation. If a computer is not enabled for hibernation the file is not
there - none on my computer.

No "Hibernate" Button Is Present After You Click "Turn off Computer"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;291790&Product=winxp

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[RJK]

Ah...I see !

"To resolve this behaviour, after you click Turn off computer, hold down the
SHIFT key to make the Stand by button change to Hibernate.
Hibernation."

....much obliged

regards, Richard


Is hiberfil.sys supposed to be there? This file is associated with
hibernation. If a computer is not enabled for hibernation the file is not
there - none on my computer.

No "Hibernate" Button Is Present After You Click "Turn off Computer"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;291790&Product=winxp

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[RJK]

Thanx Kelly

....another "tab" that I'd either forgotten about/how to get to, or didn't
know was there in the first place 1

regards, Richard

 

[Kelly]

Most welcome! Thanks for the reply.

Thanx Kelly

...another "tab" that I'd either forgotten about/how to get to, or didn't
know was there in the first place 1

regards, Richard



http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;291790&Product=winxp