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Windows XP scheduled task not running at appointed time and triggering on login
I have a scheduled defrag task on my Windows XP machine to wake up the computer and run at 3:00am every day. Then I have two other scheduled tasks, one to reboot the machine after the Defrag at ...
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Logical disk lose free space? [closed]
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Windows 7 - mysteriously missing free HDD space
I have a logical disk (E): 250GB, all files' size is 223GB, but when I click to the disk, It show the disk used 237GB. ...
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USB Stick Not Contiguous
I have a 4Gb FAT32 usb stick that I use to boot several iso images using grub4dos.
Any iso image I add turns as contiguous however there is one iso that no matter what I do it always show up as ...
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Is running daily defrag bad?
Running a RAID 0 setup and was wondering if running defrag too much would lead to a disk failure faster? Disks fail based on doing too many reads and writes? or is it based on the spinup and ...
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Does Disk Defragmenter continue if I close the window?
Using the standard Windows 7 Disk Defragmenter, does the defragmenting process continue if I close the window after star a task manually?
There's no warning when I close the window, but I always ...
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Windows 7 Defrag scheduled seems did not work
I use windows 7 from the beginning, so the first time when I looked into the Windows 7 Disk Defragment program and I saw the Scheduled Defrag I supposed that it worked and I did not check if it worked ...
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Looking for a freeware/open-source registry defragmentation tool [closed]
I'm looking for open source or freeware registry defrag app, preferably one who doesn't need a stupid .exe installer. .zip packed and ready to go preferred!
I'm using Windows 7 64bit.
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Filesystem fragmentation on the level of set of files
The file is stored in blocks by the file system. The block is the smallest amount of data the file system can assign to store a file. The classical definition of a fragmented file is that the file is ...
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Defragment - windows - better defragment free space or files?
I had read once here :
Defragmenting all the fragmented files before CCleaner means that
larger contiguous areas will be released for use instead of more and
more, and smaller and smaller ...
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Frequently used files utility
Is there a Windows utility that would analyse which files are being most frequently used on one's machine? It should be able to store this statistics over several user sessions...
It would help one's ...
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Can users besides Administrator run defrag in XP?
I know you can't do this by default, you will get somethign like "You must have administrator privileges to run this application.." or whatever, but I have tried various ways to get around this. I ...
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Should I defrag the hard drive running on a Virtual Machine?
I know that there is no point (in fact it is a bad idea) to run Defrag on an SSD. What about a virtual machine running on an SSD, should I defrag it's hard drive since it is basically accessing the ...
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Benchmarked effects of disk defragment in windows
Is there a study or something I could have a look at to find out how and to what extend disk defragment improves performance in windows?
A benchmarking study to show the before and after effects ...
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How To Stop Laptop From Waking Up?
I never scheduled wake up for my laptop, but after scheduling Auslogics Defragmenter to run on Sundays, 6:01AM and laptop to wake up at 6:00AM in Task Scheduler, it was waking up. Auslogics ...
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How to defrag a folder to make sequential file access faster
I work with real-time video apps, and just defragged my (Win XP) system to try to improve the general performance. It did... but it appears to have destroyed the generally contiguous nature of certain ...
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In a multi-boot setup, does defragmenting from one OS affect the whole drive, or only its partition?
In other words, does defragmentation have to be done on each OS separately?
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Defragmenting a large amount of files (35GB) over night
I'm trying to defrag my HP G60-116ea laptop using Piriform Defraggler.
Even their quick scan has been on 0 percent for about 30 minutes.
There are 34GB of fragmented files. I'm presuming this is a ...
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Why is disk fragmentation measured as a percentage?
In Windows if I open up the Disk Defragmenter and analyse a disk the tool reports the disk fragmentation as a percentage:
What does this percentage mean? Obviously if a drive is 0% fragmented then ...
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Not able to Defrag my drive for shrink even using PerfectDisk on Windows 7 [closed]
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Not able to partition C:\ Drive as per needs in Windows 7
I want to partition my c drive which has over 450gb capacity of which hardly 30gb is being used. I deleted the ...
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Scan Disk then Defrag, or Defrag then Scan Disk (in Windows)?
Which one should I do first in Windows 7? Scan Disk or Defragmenter?
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Unknown volume listed under Windows defragmenter
Does anyone know what "\?\Volume...." is or why it would be listed as a disk on the windows defragmenter?
It is not listed on other defragmenters like defraggler.
The E: and F: drives are ...
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Windows 8 Defragmenter?
It seems like Windows 8's defrag command has some new options, including:
/K Perform slab consolidation on the specified volumes.
Does anyone know what this means in English?
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Why does Windows Defragmenter do nearly nothing on a disk with 23% empty space?
While trying to defragment a 80 GB NTFS (4 KB cluster size) volume on Windows XP, I encountered a strange problem: the defragmentation process is very quick, but also very useless. Graphically, I ...
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What should I do with a badly fragmented disk? Defrag or copy to another drive?
I've inherited a machine with a large, badly fragmented disk drive containing lots of files.
Defragging is very slow, and makes the drive seek a zillion times (you'd think enough to cause a ...
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Defrag and symbolic links in Windows 7
I recently purchased an SSD, and for a few reasons not worth going into I had to install Windows on a traditional HDD and make symbolic links so "Program Files" actually goes to my SSD.
I started ...
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Is it bad to defragment a USB Flash Drive?
If I defragment my 8 GB Kingston flash drive, will it decrease its lifetime?
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Disk Defrag slowing computer down?
I asked How to speed up my computer? in another post and one answer was to run disk defrag. I have done this before and in the majority of cases (with multiple computers not just one) it seems to ...
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When is the data in the journal written to the disk?
(1) mentions that "With a journal the file is first written to the journal, punch-in, and then the journal writes the file to disk when ready. Once it has successfully written to the disk, it is ...
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How to find out how often my Windows partition has been defragmented?
I know that Windows uses its defrag program to defragment my partition sometimes when my system goes to an idle state. Also, sometimes I used to execute defrag by myself in order to increase ...
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What Windows app can I use to defragment a FAT32 drive's directories at boot time?
What (Windows app) can I use to defragment FAT32 directories?
I used to be a fan of PerfectDisk, but they've disabled the feature in their latest versions, and I have drives that I need to use both ...
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Cleaning and housekeeping Linux computer hard disk
I started using Linux recently. On windows (which I've used all my life) to keep the HD tidy there are several tools, e.g. disk cleanup and defragger. On Linux what should I do to tidy up a hard disk.
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Gracefully kill defrag.exe when run in command prompt
When I run defrag in command prompt is there any way to gracefully stop the process before it finishes?
Does killing the task in TM cause any problems if it is in the middle of moving a file?
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How do you defragment the MFT on an NTFS disk?
A while ago, I nearly filled my hard drive, much more than the recommended maximum of 85% of capacity. I believe that NTFS started storing files in the space reserved for the Master File Table (MFT) ...
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what's the rate of return of defragmenting our hard disk?
I know some people who swore by Disk Defragmenting.
But basically I was wondering if the result (a more responsive computer) is worth the effort (running defragmenter - in a 2GB ram environment that ...
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Why did defragmenting C drive increase my free disk space by 10 GB?
I used Defraggler to defragment free space on my 100 GB C:\ drive which was 85 GB full. After defragmentation, the drive showed only 75 GB full. How did 10 GB of free space ...
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Reserving space for files or set where on the HDD a file should be placed
To reduce fragmentation, I'd like to either reserve space for files or manually state where files should be stored on the HDD so the files can grow without fragmentation. This is useful for my mail ...
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Disk fragmentation on Linux
Do I have to de-fragment my ext3 and FAT32 filesystems on Linux? And if yes how?
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Why do disks fragment?
As a part of regular Windows maintenance, I defragment my hard drive. But why does the hard drive fragment on NTFS and FAT* systems? Apparantly ext* does not, why is this? Should I also be ...
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Is there any way to defrag a bootable XP hdd so all the free space is at the end of the drive?
I have an old PC booting Windows XP from a 40Gb drive. It also has a 320Gb hdd and a CD r/w. The 40Gb drive is getting quite noisy, and I'd like to swap it for a quieter 12Gb drive I have lying ...
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Does anyone know if it's 'normal' that you can't defrag an Outlook .ost file?
I've tried defragmenting my hard disk to see if Outlook performance improves. The .ost file shows 1000+ fragments but even after a post-defragmentation restart - never launching Outlook - it still ...
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Defrag C: /b really works to Windows 7 boot optimization?
The command Defrag %SystemDrive% /b really works to optimize windows boot time? (The defrag /b option is not documented by Microsoft) I am trying to use it in an attempt to optimize the files on the ...
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Requirements when defragmenting an external hard drive
I want to defragment my external hard drive which is 500 GB in size. It's divided into two partitions of 232 GB each. One has 70.5 GB free, and the other has 42.5 GB free. Can I defragment it now or ...
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What block allocation algorithm does NTFS use?
On Windows XP 64, I downloaded a 1.2 GB file and it ended as fragmented as the image shows. Unfortunately, before taking the snapshot from Piriform Defraggler I defragmented the other files, so you ...
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Is it safe to edit files during the defragmentation process?
Assuming I'm on an NTFS partition, is it just as safe to edit files during defragmentation as when not? Is there any added risk, even if very small? If not, how does the operating system ensure the ...
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Should I defrag my drive before upgrading to windows 7 from xp?
If I am upgrading from XP to Windows 7 by doing a custom clean install, should I defrag my computer before I start the process? Or does it not even matter since everything will be wiped?
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Something chewing on my HD in Windows 7
I just experienced something strange in Windows 7. I could hear how the harddrive was used at regular intervals of about one second. The same thing seemed to steal my CPU timeslice (from my own ...
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Win 7 defragmenter doesn't show all partitions
I just discovered yesterday that my D: partition isn't showing up in the Windows 7 defragmenter.
All my other partitions (C, E, F) are there.
The D: partition is running and working just fine - heck ...
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Defragment before Windows reinstall?
I'm going to reinstall Windows XP on a used machine soon. The data on the hard drive is heavily fragmented at the moment.
I'm going to format the drive when reinstalling Windows so is there any sense ...
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My partitions won't defrag
I can't defrag my partitions, I tried with windows software, with Smart Defrag, Defraggler and others
They all do the defragmentation process, but when I analyze again, I have the same fragmentation ...
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Defragging ntfs external hard disk from ubuntu
I'd like to defrag an external hard disk; it's formatted as NTFS for compatibility with windows when friends need files off of it. However, I use only ubuntu.
I've tried
running defraggler under ...
