Comments on: Defrag pagefile and registry in Windows XP

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:06:47 +0000

Florian, this site may be of help to you:

http://forum.sysinternals.com/.....?TID=10755

Also, PageDefrag, to my knowledge, currently does not have a Vista version that is runnable. I wish you well in your attempts to install it, I did exactly as the person on the forums said to, and it gives me basically the same error. Running as an administrator wouldn’t help at all either (I suppose that’s due to the UAC being off).

By: Florian

Florian — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:38:28 +0000

I run WIn Vista basic.

Have just downloaded & unzipped to my hd.

When double clicked, I get following error message:

Error extracting Pagedefrag driver to drivers directory.

Any idea what is wrong?
thanks

By: Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed

Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:09:14 +0000

Thanks.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:55:46 +0000

Sounds like this is something I could use after 2 1/2 years of adding/deleting stuff.

By: Larry Miller

Larry Miller — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:04:51 +0000

There should be no need to do this after the initial use. The pagefile is not like other files and does not normally grow and shrink to fit the data it contains. If the initial size is sufficient then no fragmentation will occur. If warnings occur then the initial size should be increased. If this is done then a further run of Pagedefrag will be necessary. Be sure to do a normal defrag first as Pagedefrag cannot work properly on a fragmented drive.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA