mll Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Hi everyone, First, as this is my first post, I'd like to thank Piriform for its great softwares. A question I've been wondering since boot-time defrag has been introduced into Defraggler : on every computer I tested it, Defraggler does _not_ defrag pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys, even if, at the boot-time screen (white text on black background), it says something like "pagefile.sys... done". I browsed the help site and the forum, to no avail. Am I missing something ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mll Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 I should add that, the boot-time screen does not even indicate it processes hiberfil.sys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mll Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 Mmmmh no reaction... could it be that I'm the only one with this issue ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhawk Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Do you hibernate your machine often?? If not then disable hibernation from Control Panel, "Power Options" and free more disk space. Richard S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mll Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 hi redhawk, Yes, I hibernate often ; but I worked around this problem by booting on some live cd, and removing pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys. Usually, upon reboot, Windows recreates them in a single piece each. But basically, I was not wondering about workarounds, but about what seem 1. a bug (pagefile.sys not defragged while Defraggler says it did) and 2. a missing feature (Defraggler does not seem to know that a boot-time defrag of hiberfil.sys would be a cool defragging feature) to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhawk Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 You don't need a live CD just turn hibernation off and on this forces Windows to recreate hiberfil.sys It's the same trick you can do with virtual memory, just change the values slightly and Windows recreates pagefile.sys Richard S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romanoff Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Hi, boot-time version of Defraggler defrags the pagefile.sys. Hiberfil.sys file is not supported right now. Best regards Romanoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mll Posted April 3, 2011 Author Share Posted April 3, 2011 You don't need a live CD just turn hibernation off and on this forces Windows to recreate hiberfil.sys It's the same trick you can do with virtual memory, just change the values slightly and Windows recreates pagefile.sys Richard S. OK, thanks for the tip. Hi, boot-time version of Defraggler defrags the pagefile.sys. Hiberfil.sys file is not supported right now. Best regards Romanoff OK, so I guess I'm facing a bug when pagefile.sys is not boot-time-defragmented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted April 3, 2011 Moderators Share Posted April 3, 2011 I'm with Richard on the pagefile issue. I've never defragged my PageFile. I turn it off, reboot, turn it on again and reboot. It invariably ends up as one single unfragmented file. And if you set the min and max sizes the same, there's far less chance of it becoming fragmented. Just thought I'd throw that in. EDIT: Welcome to the forum by the way mll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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