Are you aware that when your defragmenter runs...
a. Directories take up space as well? Directory EXTENTS are also revamped and space reclaimed.
b. In Windows, the PAGING FILE (swap) can take more or less space.
No big mystery.
Bob
well to start of with i had first deleted several files, taking the disc space to 3.7Gb. i then used Diskeeper V.8 to defrag my PC for the first time (in a long time) when it finished i restarted my PC only to realise that my disk space was now 4.5Gb, why?

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