how do i defragment MFT & the swapfile.

Discussion in 'Software' started by help, Nov 30, 2003.

  1. help

    help Corporal

    how do i defragment MFT & the swapfile.
     
    help, Nov 30, 2003
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  2. Kodo

    Kodo SNATCHSQUATCH

    Kodo, Nov 30, 2003
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  3. Jabman

    Jabman Private First Class

    Jabman, Nov 30, 2003
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  4. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    "For the best results you should use PageDefrag in conjunction with a commercial defragmentation utility or the free Contig defragmenter at http://www.sysinternals.com/contig.htm"

    Thats a command line utility too, some may be intimidated by that. Anyhow, when you go to the link from the first program, it tells you yet another program you should use after that. So, they have you going to 3 different programs. Im with Kodo on this one.
     
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    Major Attitude, Nov 30, 2003
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  5. Jabman

    Jabman Private First Class

    I use O&O Defrag Pro v.6, along _with_ PageDefrag ;).

    Regards,
    Jade.

    BTW....I am getting an error on ya contig link MA.
     
    Jabman, Nov 30, 2003
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  6. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Link fixed. Without making the thread more confusing, can you explain why? Not because I doubt you, or dont think you know, but because I have not used either program in some time and am in the dark. O&O does not defrag the MFT and swap?

    Thanks!

     
    Major Attitude, Nov 30, 2003
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  7. help

    help Corporal

    cool

    thanks
     
    help, Nov 30, 2003
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  8. Jabman

    Jabman Private First Class

    Well, before I found out about O&O I had checked out PageDefrag. And like in one of your former posts, I also read that it works best along side a commercial defragging program. So I searched and found O&O :D .

    Would not a program for defragging locked system files such as pagefile.sys and the registry hives SAM, system, SECURITY, software and default be best done at boot time?...my personal opinion is that it would be. Therefore I choose to use both ;) .

    Regards,
    Jade.
     
    Jabman, Nov 30, 2003
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  9. Kodo

    Kodo SNATCHSQUATCH

    I'm curious as to why you think this?
     
    Kodo, Nov 30, 2003
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  10. Vlad902

    Vlad902 Guest

    I'm taking a stab at this even though I may think you're completely talking about something else. For the boot time thing, it's better to do it then before the log-in because the highest account in windows is SYSTEM so you can possibly run it as SYSTEM before you log-in? Unless you want root yourself to run a defrag program :p
     
    Vlad902, Nov 30, 2003
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  11. Kodo

    Kodo SNATCHSQUATCH

    if you defrag using an ACCESS method, it makes no difference.
     
    Kodo, Nov 30, 2003
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  12. Vlad902

    Vlad902 Guest

    Figures, I have no idea what I'm talking about :D
     
    Vlad902, Nov 30, 2003
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  13. Jabman

    Jabman Private First Class

    I do believe I am in the same boat as you......don't know what I'm talking 'bout :rolleyes: :D .

    Regards,
    Jade.
     
    Jabman, Dec 1, 2003
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  14. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Good info, thanks for informing me. I install so much crap here that I simply recover from an image to save time and grief, so theres rarely to never a need for me to defragment my swapfile.
     
    Major Attitude, Dec 1, 2003
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  15. help

    help Corporal

    thanks my issue is resolved.u guys r da bestt
     
    help, Dec 1, 2003
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  16. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Yeah, but we wont be happy until we break it again. Hopefully this thread covered it for you all the same :)

     
    Major Attitude, Dec 1, 2003
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