Nathan Laing
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I love Defraggler.
Add the ability to manually relocate data to a desired location on the drive.
For example, make the existing drive map interactive whereby one could click, select and drag individual files or data "blocks" and drag/drop them into the desired location on the drive. Once the data was moved, one could mark those sectors as unmovable by Defraggler.
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Right at the end of the defragmentation process, the drive map flickers with different patterns of blue blocks. (image attached)
No, my hard drive isn't really this fragmented! LOL
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The other week i was just gathering info on the page file, as i was going to start experimenting a little.
But this thread which i started, had put me of a little....
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.ph....html#msg644763
* No harm can be done as the only data ever stored in the pagefile is always "temporary" anyway.
* Windows-managed page file size or even setting only a minimum page file size can result in page file fragmentation.
* A static page file if created contiguously will guarantee an unfragmented page file.
However, whether or not any performance benefits can be gleaned from a defragmented pagefile really is subjective.
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Hello nathan
Yes, i downloaded "pagedefrag" from sysinternals for the XP machine, carn't say if i noticed any improvement.
Do you notice any improvement doing it your way.
What do you think , to creating a static page file, i keep meaning to try it, but what i have read so far is people just tell you its best to leave the page file alone, there are to many "myths" about the page file
By creating a static-size page file, you avoid the following data layout situation arising on your hard disk (Where X is data and P is the page file):
XXXXXXXXPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPXXXXXXXXXPPPPPPPPXXXXXXXXXXXXPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
Defragmentation theory is all about consolidating data for speed purposes, therefore having the following layout:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
Theoretically, should enhance the read speed of X.
However, whether or not there are any noticable speed improvements would depend on what one was doing with the data. For example, on a fragmented drive imagine a huge movie file being played on an old slow machine, or imagine a big collection of small image files no more than 1 - 2 megabytes each; In the case of the movie-file, one may experience performance issues, but in the case of the small image-file scenario, performance issues would be negligable.
As concerns Windows stability and page file sizes;
I have also experimented with having no page file as well. Depending on how much RAM you have in the machine, performance is likely to be quite slow and "jittery". Also, some high end games may refuse to start unless a page-file is active.
As a general rule, page file size should be equal to or greater than the amount of RAM in your system.
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Hi am new to defraggler
Is there a help section on using defraggler
Can you defrag the pageing file, and if you can , how would you do it in draggler..
Windows xp
Here's how I 'defrag' the page file using Defraggler;
1) Turn off the page file
2) Reset PC
3) Delete pagefile.sys
4) Defrag the drive using Defraggler
5) Turn on the page file, setting an appropriate size value
In step 5, provided you have enough freespace, Windows will create a new contiguous page file of the size you specified. Walla.
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Here's how I 'defrag' the page file using Defraggler;
1) Turn off the page file
2) Reset PC
3) Delete pagefile.sys
4) Defrag the drive using Defraggler
5) Turn on the page file, setting an appropriate size value
In step 5, provided you have enough freespace, Windows will create a new contiguous page file of the size you specified. Walla.
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Given that CCleaner now lists version number information in the uninstall section, it might be nice to have Piriform software (CCleaner, Defraggler, Recuva, Speccy) have their version numbers registered.
GPU temp not displaying
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I have an NVIDIA 285GTX and experienced the temperature not displaying after a driver update. Now however, with the latest drivers the temperature displays again.