bonesugar

Sorry, 7 is of course better than vista.

nah. I haven't and I doubt it. I guess this is the best state I can get. I have already got used to it. Whenever I install a major application, I install it twice. First the usual installation and then defgragmenting the hard drive. It's annoying how slow my i7 920 is. Btw, Vista is considerably better than 7 in terms of hard drive usage. In vista, turning of indexing and system restore didn't help. I used to blame Kaspersky Internet Security 2010. not anymore.

Hello. I've been using defraggler for a long time. When I've changed my OS from Vista to 7, the upgrade DVD performed a new installation and backing up the old windows and program files to a "windows.old" folder. About 100Gb. It's up to no use and all deleted now. At the moment, I have about (somewhat fragmented) 100Gb free space on my 320Gb. What happened is that it messed up my free space. When I choose to defrag my free space, the process ends without completion. It jumps from 21% to 100% in a blink. It also causes some file fragmentation (5-15Gb). I've gone through several defrag free space-file-free space-file cycles to no success. It's certainly better than before but what I expect is a single string of blue cells (used) followed by a single of white cells (free) with the exception system files (hyberfil.sys, pagefile.sys). Is it not possible to get these two single blue and white chunks? Thanks.