defragmenter

**Jun aka Pekto** · December 16th, 2006 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by userfriendly

yes it does used it but heavy fragmentation pa rin. Can't reduce my fragmentation below 38%

Laptop so only one drive. How do you change the size of the page file? I'll try burning my *******s into dvds and deleting them from my hard drive. Just need to buy blank dvds. Then defrag again.

My suggestion would be to buy an external usb2 hard drive no larger than 2.5". That way, it can be powered through the usb port. If you have a Mac laptop, it has 6-pin firewire ports which would be my preference (most pc laptops only have 4-pin firewire). If you're going to get into video files, an external hard drive is a critical storage option. DVD platters are ok. DVD+/-RW will be even better with Vista. But, they do take an awfully long time to write into. An external hard drive is the most painless way to store large video files.

**radiazone** · December 16th, 2006 08:58 PM

diskeeper gamit ko dati but now i don't use defragmenter

**roninblade** · December 16th, 2006 09:02 PM

I don't care what MS says.

its not what MS says, its the general rule for creating page files in any OS not just windows.

**Jun aka Pekto** · December 16th, 2006 09:34 PM

Originally Posted by roninblade

its not what MS says, its the general rule for creating page files in any OS not just windows.

That's true. But, most computers come with only 1 hard drive and MS has maintained that it's best to let the OS manage the page file. On that aspect, I disagree with MS.

Add: Even on tech sites like Ars Technica, there's still a big disagreement on that issue.

**metatron** · December 16th, 2006 10:07 PM

try contig and its freeware power defragmenter gui. both utilities are available as free downloads from softpedia.com. contig is dos based and the gui is frugal to say the least so there's no progress indicator. just run it, keep yourself from hitting the close window button on the dos box and wait for the defrag complete notification. can defrag 60% full 250gig hd in 3/4 the time required for winxp's defrag utility.