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DEFRAG EVERYTHING

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by schutzhund

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As far as I know , 3rd party defrag sw doesn't do it all on the "active/boot/system" partition.
Is there a way in DOS with w9x,2k and XP?

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by thechas

No defrag software can "do it all".
There are just too many System Hidden files that Windows requires to stay where they are first placed.

Norton Speed Disk, and Executive Software's Disk Keeper are among the highest rated defrag utilities.

You can download either a freeware, or a trialware version of Disk Keeper
http://www.execsoft.com/execsoft.asp

My personal solution, is to set a seperate partition or drive for virtual memory (swap / page file)
While not the fastest method per benchmark performance, it has the benefit of being able to significantly reduce fragmentation on the boot drive, and of the swap file.
When given a choice, I opt for stability over performance.

Chas

by jboardman

To de-frag everything, you will have to shut down Windows and run a DOS-level de-fragger. There are some programs available that will create secondary swapfiles (cache) and system/user hives and then allow you do defrag the one that is not in use. The penalty is, of course, that you are going to be using a good chunk of your hard drive with redundant files that way.

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