After upgrading from Windows ME to Windows XP,the XP
Defragmenter shows 11% fragmented & says I should defrag.
When I do, it leaves a long list of files not defraged.
When I try again immediately, the same thing happens -
11% still fragmented. The display shows a lot of red,
both before and after defraging. I have done this a dozen
times and nothing changes. Anybody out there know how to
fix this?
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Unfortunately, it's my understanding that XP cannot defragment
directories on FAT partitions. I've often wondered what would happen if one
booted from a win98 install disk and defragmented the disk (which did allow
defragmentation of directories -- the old Norton Util actually let you put
all the directories at the beginning of the disk making file name searchs
incredibly faster.
It won't defragment directories, I don't think, but there is a
util called "contig" on Makr Russinovich's free utils page. It's a very
fast file defragmenter and tells you what files it is processessing as it
goes along -- howmany fragments before and after...etc.... See
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/contig.shtml.
Also, you can defrag your page and registry files with another one of his
utilities "pagedefrag" from
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pagedefrag.shtml.
My only request if you use his Process Explorer try resizing the fonts used
to small fonts so you can have a small display on your screen. The util
used to resize the icons to match the font size. Now it doesn't and you
can't shrink the display size. He says I'm the only one who has noticed
this and written to him about this, so he doesn't feel it's a big deal nor
necessary to re-enable the icon resizing (I used too use his util and leave
it on for long periods to monitor my system in a small box in the corner,
but now can't because the icons won't resize. So if you try that util and
find that you'd like to have the lines spaced closer together (vertically)
-- please write him and let him know since right now, he thinks I'm the only
one who would want a small configurable status display because _no one_ else
has said anything. SO PLEASE SAY SOMETHING!!!
His site is great, so check it out...many Kudos to his tools and his book --
I'd regard it as essential reading if you are interested in how the OS works
on the inside!
Linda Walsh
