My computer needs defragging, but not one program, including Windows Defrag, is able to move any files. Is there a setting that I'm not aware of?
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My computer needs defragging, but not one program, including Windows Defrag, is able to move any files. Is there a setting that I'm not aware of?
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Auslogics, PerfectDisk and Windows all say I have a large number of fragmented disks. Defraggler, which is working on it now, says it's 54%. After two hours, nothing is defragmented. It makes sense to me that having a bit more order than that will allow my computer to work faster.
I'm using Windows 7 Professional.
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If it does I'm looking at how much RAM, if the OS has issues. For example many folk install Windows and rarely anyone has a great install plan. Microsoft has had decades to sort that out yet here we are.
Bob
20 years ago it was a common belief that you needed to defrag periodically. With today's technology everything I've seen in recent years says it does little or no good. I have to say that even going back 25 years I NEVER saw any improvement in doing defrags. 5 or 6 years ago PC World magazine ran an article saying they'd done extensive lab tests and couldn't find any situation where it helped. The one exception is when your hard drive gets nearly full; however the best solution for that is to move stuff off or get a bigger hard drive.
Old ideas about defragging and registry cleaners persist, but they are obsolete ideas.
HDD. It's a Dell Studio with Windows 7 Professional. I've used less than half the hard drive so far.
You can try contig (a command line tool) from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx
The nice thing: it shows each file it sees on the screen and it can do one folder.
But it's a command line tool. So some easy step to use it:
1. Move the exe file to a folder with a short simple name, say c:\temp.
2. In Windows Explorer, shift-right click on a folder and choose "Open command prompt"
3. Type c:\temp\contig.exe *.* /s (just copy/paste into the command window, if you can't get the spaces right) + enter
4.It will defrag all files in that folder and all subfolders.
Repeat for all folders.
Kees
Well, I got information from the tech person at PerfectDisk, my latest defrag program. When she found out that I have RollbackRX installed, she said the only way I can defrag is to uninstall RollbackRX, defrag, and then reinstall Rollback. It creates spaces for its various snapshots of my system. That makes perfect sense to me. So I'll do that maybe every three months or so.
Thanks for your suggestions.
Leslie