Icedrake Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 I'm using Defraggler and I was wondering if I should defrag the file pagefile.sys. It's causing 11% fragmentation on my system, so I want to defrag it but I'm not sure if I should in case if I did it might cause problems in my system. What do you guys think? Should I defrag the page file? Is is safe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lidgeu Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 I'm using Defraggler and I was wondering if I should defrag the file pagefile.sys. It's causing 11% fragmentation on my system, so I want to defrag it but I'm not sure if I should in case if I did it might cause problems in my system. What do you guys think? Should I defrag the page file? Is is safe? Hi, Icedrake To my personal experience, the simpliest (and the safer) is : 1- Displace your page file to an other logical disk (from C to D, for instance), 2- Deep defrag C, 3- Move your pagefile back. That's all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted May 25, 2009 Moderators Share Posted May 25, 2009 You could try to have the pagefile deleted on shutdown or restart both xp-AntiSpy (freeware) and Winsecret 2009 (freeware) can to that to see if doing so removes the fragmentation. Also there's Microsoft Windows Sysinternals PageDefrag (freeware) to take care of it and other system files during startup and you'll never have to worry about a fragmented pagefile again if you set it to always run at boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 So is it safe to defrag the pagefile with Defraggler? Or should I just leave it alone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted May 26, 2009 Moderators Share Posted May 26, 2009 So is it safe to defrag the pagefile with Defraggler? I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dillwidit Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 I don't know. Maybe this isn't the right place to post this and i could be simply ignorant to how things work, but i alway thought that if you set the pagefile to a constant size- by way of right clicking the computer icon- That it was no longer necessary to defrag it, as it will stay constant. Am i wrong in thinking this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted May 27, 2009 Moderators Share Posted May 27, 2009 i alway thought that if you set the pagefile to a constant size- by way of right clicking the computer icon- That it was no longer necessary to defrag it, as it will stay constant. That's also what I've always heard from tweaking sites and such, and I used to implement that myself back during the Win98 days, however the issues it caused me back then were memory related. Hence the reason I've never bothered with that tweak in WinXP, and just let Windows manage it by itself. Funny thing is my pagefile has never needed to be defragged in the six years I've been using the same machine with WinXP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theeviltwin69 Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 I use the page defrag from SYS internals and have never had a problem.It runs on start up and takes 2 seconds,most of the time I think it does nothing,UNLESS I abort the defrag on boot for like 3 weaks then I can see it does do something,especially when I Hibernate,or never re boot during that period,or use stand by,since I am on a laptop.Don't know if that helps,but that's what I do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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