e2020 Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 hello, sorry if this was discussed before, I'm in a public place where my online time is limited to 1 hour. my problem/wish: I was playing around with the defragger to get my swap & standby/"suspend to disk" files defragged to the end of the disk/partition - both files are bigger than 300mb, so I clicked and setup "move files bigger than": 300 "to the end of disk" , inserted *sys-files (for pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys) and also activated "boot on defrag" for everytime but somehow it did not work out - where is my/the error? could anybody please advice me? thanks a lot! and I would really like to have defragger working as a screensaver - so it does the job while my laptop is not needed - would this be possible please? oliver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e2020 Posted November 17, 2010 Author Share Posted November 17, 2010 I'm using winxp - if this is important somehow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhawk Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 Why do you want to send pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys to the end of the disk this area is known for poor read/write performance?? As for lack of defragging the 2 files they're probably being ignored by Defraggler or are currently locked by the Operating System. If you want to defrag pagefile.sys you could use Sysinternals PageDefrag although this won't move large files to the end of the disk. Richard S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Not sure about how to move it to the end but you could create a new parition and move it there which is almost the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gray Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Not sure about how to move it to the end but you could create a new partition and move it there which is almost the same. And just as inefficient, if not slightly more so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 And just as inefficient, if not slightly more so! Not really because the OP didn't know how to move it to the end in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Defraggle Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 And just as inefficient, if not slightly more so! Not necessarily, you can create more than 1 extra partition and have pagefile.sys reasonably close to multiple Windows installs (say Vista & Win 7 upgrade), with it shared between them. With a good amount of RAM eg) 4GB the pagefile may not even be used very heavily. Having a partition at end of disk, for all those huge media files and downloads, and less heavily used data, would actually be much more effiicient, at price of added complexity of not having everything in one huge C: drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhawk Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 There's no difference having pagefile.sys on the main drive at the end of the disk or a partition at the end of the disk with pagefile.sys. The drive performance is at it's lowest (you can check this with HD Tune's benchmark test) not to mention the fact that performance is further degraded by the read/write head swinging back and forth to access pagefile.sys and files at the start of the drive. The best place to store pagefile.sys is on another hard drive preferably with it's own partition at the start of the disk. Richard S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted December 19, 2010 Moderators Share Posted December 19, 2010 Bear in mind that in order for Windows to produce minidumps I believe it needs a pagefile minimum of 2MB on the drive. Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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