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You can try freeing up space like this: - Run CCleaner - Uninstall toolbars & apps you do not use - Check for music/vids/games you do not use & remove them - Uninstall 3rd party browsers you do not use, & stick with 1, like Firefox, or Chrome - Delete system restore points with CCleaner. It will save the last 1 for safety reasons. This should help free up space to run Defraggler. If you still have trouble, see if the built in MS defrag will work & then try defraggler after running a full defrag with MS. Thank you!

Ok, no such luck! Windows 7 had the file "locked in", or that is to say, I could not change the folder path to a .LNK when I tried to edit the file path! It was just not possible! I do hope this gets fixed, cause, well, it is such a nice feature! Thanks!

I posted earlier something about this in for Defraggler, but felt it would also apply to CCleaner as well. Firefox has tabs on top, which is a TON better than the amount of space it took up earlier! Any way to include (at least the option of it) for tabs on top in CCleaner? Man, I would LOVE the extra space on the side I had! When you have tabs on the side, seems to take up so much room! Tabs on top could be much slimmer, since they can be just over the size of the text. Current tabs on the side look good, but they are 4 times larger or more than the text they represent! With tabs on top, the screen real estate would be used so much better because far less space would be wasted!

I have used Firefox 4 & I love the tabs on top feature. Sooo much more room on my 19 in monitor! How about tabs on top in Defraggler? Currently, tabs are on the bottom of the visual estate, & makes defraggler take up far more room that it could. I was wondering about laying the drives/file list/search/drive map on top, for a more compact Defraggler? This would use the space far more efficiently, & result in a smaller "default" compact view of defraggler as well as a more aesthetically appealing view!

The outer edge of a drive is always faster. The inner is a smaller circle, which is WHY the outer is faster. The disk spins the same speed for the inner & outer rings, so the outer, being larger, throughputs much more data with the same rotation speeds. Ever notice how a cd/dvd drive starts from the inner track, & the speed gets faster as it gets closer to the edge? The speed will commonly get anywhere from 3 to 5 times faster by the time it reaches the edge!

Alan, I too have been the victim of the lag before. At first, I simply thought well, you know! Maybe they didn't include it this time for some reason! But it turned out that the installer simply lagged & I hit next before it loaded the screen to checkmark the box! I am not too worried, since I have a flash drive & between the portable versions that have no toolbar, & the fact that I can simple send it to a flash drive & then use it without having to install it again, I am set!

- It is possible, because I have a fast machine + I never have anything loading at startup other than the essentials, namely my antivirus & locate 32. Locate 32 is faster than windows search, & can find all the files instantly. 10,000 + files (if your looking for music, documents, whatever) can load pretty much instantly, or in just a few seconds. Besides this, I do use office, but I don't allow it to load at startup. I simply have no need to. - So far as the machine running all the time, standby saves some power. Sure, not as much as hibernate, but it's better than full power on. So far as saving power, I used to have a 17 inch CRT NEC monitor. It was good, but when it kicked the bucket, I immediately switched to a 19 inch widescreen LCD monitor. Did you know that an LCD monitor uses 25% the power of a CRT? Additionally, I use CFL lights in almost all the lights in my trailer, + I own my trailer. CFL lights use around 20 to 25% the power of normal lights. So I am not concerned about power use. Thanks! Oh, yeah. Forgot to add. A BIG slowdowner is always having updates turned on. I always have them turned off because of the occasional "drive" update that MS updates that bluescreens your PC, & over time, updates do greatly slow your PC as they multiply hundreds of thousands of patches on top of each other. Noted that on many occasions while looked at PC's that the ones with them turned off never seem to slow down, so long as you always keep it properly cleaned/defragged/free of malware/viruses. This was, however, just an observation in my testing of things. But I am sure that you will want to always have updates on, because they are patches, & patches may fix holes. The biggest hole you can fix is by using a more secure browser, since McAfee researcher found if you use IE 6, 7, 8 (possibly 9 too) that they can craft an XML page to whitelist bad controls, causing the comp to be able to run exploits while silently evading UAC + memory DEP protections. Internet Explorer = bad. Very bad. Active X. Never have a problem with Firefox. Of course, there is Chrome, but chrome & opera have ahem, usability issues I don't want to delve into here. Keep your system patched man. I just don't update mine cause I am a daredevil that doesn't care because I have all my stuff backed up & I know my ins & outs on computers. You will want to be sure you always keep yours up to date with the latest patches, so don't do like I do, cause it might be dangerous for you. Only trained pro's do what I do, so be sure you always keep yours up-to-date with the latest patches cause everyone else does it, its the cool thing to do, & it's safer... I guess. I do notice large amounts of patches being devoted to "fix" internet explorer problems... related to buffer overflows, browser exploits, even things seemingly unrelated that ARE related due to the way the browser handles images, etc.... Maybe I just see things wrongly? Why use IE? Oh well, up to you though, man, just always keep your system patched & never try to do everything I do. Thank you!

You are right. Causual user won't notice. It just so happened on this one machine, however, that the user: - Never cleared internet trash - Never defragged - Used almost all the free space Which resulted in: - Nearly every space on the drive having some form of file, even if nothing but a cookie (something like over 23,000 files!) - Free space being severely fragmented - Unusually long write/seek times due to the data being spread out so far apart into so many fragments on the drive Complete defrag definitely helped after cleaning up! Before? You couldn't even use the thing because everything took a minute or two to load! PC had a good amount of ram & a decent processor spec, but user simply allowed things to get out of control!

I would highly suggest checking out utilities capable of reading RAW format drives, because I know they do exist, & they do work.... I sure wish Recuva could do that! I mean, I cannot recover if there is no drive to select! Haha! I keep waiting, hoping, that one day, recuva will magically add that missing feature! I'd love it!

I keep forgetting that your using a lower version of XP, Alan. I have XP Pro. I didn't even mess with the home, because of the features stripped out in it.

Yes, tweak UI is good! Alan, why must you make it seem hard? LOL! Just kidding, my man!

Well, I mean, I kinda hate how the Computer Cleanup sorts Internet Explorer files together, Firefox trash files together, Temp files together, & we don't get that treatment for the registry cleaning! Would be wonderful to see a sense of uniformity! Haha! I guess they create the icons! After all, a CCleaner icon didn't used to exist! But they made one!

I suspect this problem does not exist in XP. I would say that there are a few things you can try, take your pick! Get an external drive & copy over all the files you are concerned with. Also make a full system backup using the system backup utility. After the backups are complete, safely eject the external drive & then shift + delete the files you are trying to "recover". Try to recover them now, since now, they really ARE deleted, thus satisfying the requirements for Recuva! You can also try the following alternatives: Use another OS like XP to check & be sure the OS doesn't have corruption causing it not to properly open. See if they open under XP Of course, you can try a system restore too, to see if that will work. Restore back to a prior date. Also, TestDisk utility may be used to try to recover data. Some report success with it. Whatever you do, be sure all your data is BACKED up first!

Hmmm.... That just may work! I am going to try it sometime! Thanks, Nerg! If your not a genius, I don't know who is! Haha! Hope you can find some kind of genius way to fix the drag & drop in 7 though. I miss that a lot! I should have known, if you can't do it, who else can? P.S. Allan, I am going to also check up on the reparse stuff as well. Very good info your giving. I always use relative paths when setting files for extraction, anyway, Example: "%Appdata%\Mozilla Firefox" / %programfiles% etc, etc. I don't use hard links & haven't for a long time due the problems they cause. Oh, n, sorry for all the questions, but WinRar SFX can do a LOT of amazing things. But I'd love to know which installer program you use for Piriform products? It is clean & simple. Haven't had time to check lately, but I know there are various ones such as Inno Setup, NSIS, WinRar SFX, Spoon Installer, Create Install, etc

Do you have an example of a commandline in how it would look? I was looking up some of the commands online, but wanted to get a general idea how they work. Right now, I am thinking of trying a GUI version for that, but I'd love to know how the commandline looks too. You can do an example path, if you want, just so I can see how to properly do it.

I suggest against it too. I am not sure, but are you describing a RAW format drive? I have had a few of those happen, & I suggested many times about adding not only RAW mode support to Recuva, but also the ability to recover from password protected user accounts. I know it is possible, because I have a utility I use right now that can do it. I would just like to see that in Recuva so bad! Doing a quick format may destroy your hope of getting some of the data back! So, Richard is right! Thanks!

Oh, trust me. You WOULD see a difference in the before & after on this system. The before was painstakingly crawling! Consolidation definitely made this one faster.

Hey, can anyone change Grisoft to AVG? I feel a lot of users are possibly misled by that name. I know that Grisoft IS AVG but many here probably do not know that. Please update the name so the votes can be tabulated in a more knowledgeable manner by the common populace. Thank you!

That would be weird though, because when I use it, I am in Admin account with full permissions. How could it be a higher account level than mine? That doesn't seem to make sense to me, haha! Do you have any more information on it? If there is an account higher than admin, I sure would love to know!

I have a quick question. There is a program I use sometimes called Webroot Antispyware. It is a very good antimalware program, but here is the deal. If I visit their definitions folder, it has some kind of advanced permissions on it. I cannot change it via right click/properties in Windows, nor can I run Pete Romainges Attribute Changer program to change it. It seems to have an even more advanced lock-in than normal attributes, which is really confusing for me! However, I can run Unlocker on it to move the files no problem. But the webroot definitions folder cannot be copied, pasted, cut, or anything involving moving it whatsoever EXCEPT by using Unlocker. This has be very intrigued. I would like to know how they set this advanced property? Is it magic? LOL

Yeah, I thought it was fixed after that, because defraggler worked fine for 2 times all the way through, then it closed out the 3rd time, so I had to edit my post to say no, that wasn't the fix. Man, that made me feel dumb! LOL! It happened right after running auslogics disk cleanup utility, so I suspect they removed trash that didn't need removing. My bad, really, but I test a lot of software just for the heck of it. Learn a lot that way. Anyway, you guys are great!

Probably have nothing to worry about, although the most reliable way to erase a disk is to connect it externally through usb to a computer, then format it, then wipe the entire disk before setting up Windows. I would think you should be good, but there may be the possibility that someone with highly technically advanced machines may have a possibility of recovering the data. Most people should not be able to recover this, I would think. If you are paranoid, just get it back, wipe the entire drive 3 passes to set your mind at ease, then reset Windows & give it back to them.

Kroozer, I like reading your responses to people. You always seem very courteous to others, & you (usually) have pretty good advice. Have to say that attitude is everything, & it is nice to know that some people haven't forgotten manners. I like the way you treat others. Yes, System Restore does eat up space, so if that happens, may have to curtail the sys restore points. She is right on the $$$ on this one.

Couldn't get my pagefile to remove when I set it to no pagefile. So I used unlocker to force it. Defraggler appeared to work for 2 or 3 times, then shut down when I tried it again. Guess that wasn't the problem. Sorry guys, it worked the first 2 times afterwards! Guess it's time to format & redo windows. Oh well, had this one going for a long time. Cheers!

- Hibernation is a deep sleep. Standby is a light sleep. Sure, hibernation is much closer to being "off". But since my system can fully load windows in less than 25 seconds (or less) why do I want to waste time with hibernation when it takes 15 seconds (or more) to fully waken? I'd rather just shut it down or use standby. If it isn't pretty instant, I have no use for it. And hibernate is not instant. - Usually, suspend/hibernate problems are the result of not having the correct ACPI drivers, or sometimes AMD/ATI away mode drivers installed. Memory corruption can cause it though, as well as other things. Standby just always works for me. As long as you have the right power drivers installed. Have found that if a system doesn't respond to standby or come from it, it's usually power driver problems most of the time. - Notice that I did not say rebooting was faster, but that is was almost as fast. I would rather reboot than to hibernate to say a mere 5 or 10 seconds off a 25 second boot from cold. - Electricity shortage? You are right! Most people are either unprotected, or protect their pc but forget to protect their internet (where up to 90% of power spikes can come from). I have all my pc power filtered through APC battery backup, & I haven't had a problem in 5 years. APC is the best.