[Defraggler, 13% fragmentation remains!]

Please do the following :

• Hit Windows key + Pause/Break key on your keyboard.
• Choose "Advanced system settings"
• Click the button in the "Performance" category
• In the "Advanced" tab, click the "Change" button
• Select "No paging file"
• Click the "Set" button, and click OK
• Reboot
• Go back to the dialog you just quit, and chose "Custom size"
• For both the "Initial size" and "Maximum size", type 1024
• Click the "Set" button, and click OK
• Reboot

That will defrag the pagefile.

 

Then :

• In the Control Panel, select Power Options
• In the Hibernate tab, uncheck the Enable Hibernation checkbox.
• Reboot
• If you are using a laptop or netbook, enable it again by checking the checkbox mentionned above and rebooting

That will defrag/delete the hiberfile.

 

Then

• Boot in Safe Mode, in the Administrator account : http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ss/safemodexp.htm .
• Open Defraggler
• Defrag Free space (Action >> Advanced >> Defrag Freespace (allow fragmentation) )
• Defrag the drive.

That should defrag the rest of the files.

 

 

Follow the above procedure BUT change it up alittle

1: disable hibernate and pagefile

reboot

2: run defraggler (thereby defragging only the main system files)

** On a side note, I'll usually shutdown everything running in my system tray, the idea is less running process's = faster defrag, as well as not having to worry about some files not getting defragmented due to being in use. (whether or not this is accurate I can't say for sure, it's just a theory of mine and I do it ...lol)

 

when defrag is complete enable hibernate and pagefile (your choice on which one you want directly after system files)

reboot

 

run defraggler and see the results

 

I did do this, while typing this out on my laptop, defraggler didn't appear to be any slower without the pagefile

results on 24.gb

initial fragmentation Before 49%

fragmentation after 0%

 

seems to work

 

**EDIT: I just did this on my laptop as well with the same results 0% when complete

I'd like to add (may or may not be relevant to my findings)

under defraggler/settings/options/defrag

I have "move large files to end of drive" and "move only selected files types" both checked with their default settings