Windows Vista Defragging Vista

Hi All,

I had thought about buying a prog like Diskeeper to keep things tidy - but!
I de-activated Vista tune-up because it wanted to defrag all the partitions, and decided to run a trial for the last month. I think that MS must have made serious improvements to the defragmenter that XP used to have because I have been running defrag.exe every few days with the -a command, and have not once been told that defragging was necessary. Defrag.exe has always returned an analysis of only 0% or 1% fragmented files, and said that, obviously, no defrag is necessary. Bad news for companies like Diskeeper I think.
Roger

 

Hey Roger,

We meet again...I use Diskeeper 11 Pro Premier for both Vista and XP (build 698). For some reason, it defrags Vista better than XP for me. Both OS's reside on their own respective partitions and it always leaves me with a lot of "red" on my XP partition, which I find odd. Have you experienced anything like that?

Take care,

Crunch

 

Hi Crunch,

No I can't help you there. I use the command line defrag.exe which is built into Vista and XP so I don't get a picture of what is going on. I usually run it with the -a command so that it analyses the HD and tells me if it needs a defrag. Never felt the need for a 3rd party program.

Roger

 

Hi Crunch,

That may be the page file and drive images show up like that as well.

To find out, you can delete and and re create it:

Right click My Computer
Properties
Advanced tab
Performance
Setting bar
Advanced tab
Virtual Memory
Change bar
Select C drive and tick No Paging file


Then reboot and reestablish the page file.

Regards - Charles

 

Thank you, sir. I will try that. And yes, the paging file is all over the place on my C: drive...I'll post back with what difference it will have made, if any.

Take care...