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....is a farce in XP Home ...much better in W98
Right then defragging gurus - can anyone enlighten me ?
Most of this afternoon I've been trying to optimize my drives, and defrag
them ...and so on. My 10 gb drive c: where xp home lives has nearly 4gb's
of empty space - and after it's defragged with Norton or XP Home's
defragger, the free space, when viewed in Norton / after Norton defragger
has tackled it, has loads of little yellow "directory" entries sprinkled all
throughout all the empty space.
Which means that my 60mb pagefile.sys , when freshly created on drive c: is
in 25 non-contigous blocks !
(I have my main "system managed" pagefile.sys on drive g: which is the first
drive on my 2nd hd).
I found a whopping great big 987mb file in the root dir. of c: that was left
behind by a hd benchmarking program - Lavalys Everest v1.10.106 I think it
was.
Anyway, does anyone know if there is a way to defrag those dir. entries that
are sprinkled throughout my 10gb XP Home boot drive c: ?
regards, Richard
...mmmm .....my g:\pagefile.sys seems to have increased to 1.12 GB
(1,207,148,544 bytes) ...I suppose that was because I deleted my 60mb
c:\pagefile.sys in order to hopefully defrag c: so that I could get a not
fragmented one when I reset it. ....I think I shall install Windows 98 and
tweak it up - it used to be a lot tidier than this XP Home thing !!
Right then defragging gurus - can anyone enlighten me ?
Most of this afternoon I've been trying to optimize my drives, and defrag
them ...and so on. My 10 gb drive c: where xp home lives has nearly 4gb's
of empty space - and after it's defragged with Norton or XP Home's
defragger, the free space, when viewed in Norton / after Norton defragger
has tackled it, has loads of little yellow "directory" entries sprinkled all
throughout all the empty space.
Which means that my 60mb pagefile.sys , when freshly created on drive c: is
in 25 non-contigous blocks !
(I have my main "system managed" pagefile.sys on drive g: which is the first
drive on my 2nd hd).
I found a whopping great big 987mb file in the root dir. of c: that was left
behind by a hd benchmarking program - Lavalys Everest v1.10.106 I think it
was.
Anyway, does anyone know if there is a way to defrag those dir. entries that
are sprinkled throughout my 10gb XP Home boot drive c: ?
regards, Richard
...mmmm .....my g:\pagefile.sys seems to have increased to 1.12 GB
(1,207,148,544 bytes) ...I suppose that was because I deleted my 60mb
c:\pagefile.sys in order to hopefully defrag c: so that I could get a not
fragmented one when I reset it. ....I think I shall install Windows 98 and
tweak it up - it used to be a lot tidier than this XP Home thing !!
