Comments on: Defrag pagefile and registry in Windows XP

By: Ceret

Ceret — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:16:28 +0000

You definitely need to defragment your hard drive every once in a while, not often. Also, it’s good to defrag the page file if you don’t have it set to a fixed size (min and max are same).

I’m not sure about defragmenting the registry, but it seems like it could help. It’s not the same as cleaning the registry, which is dangerous.

By: Doc

Doc — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:01:59 +0000

@someone:
> Also get brain 1.0 and you wont need to have an antivirus-software running all the time

You need an antivirus program running with real-time checking. I just cleaned up a Windows 2000 domain controller that had 3-4 MIRC bots, Mytob (infects removable drives), FTP bots, and other garbage running on it. Also, to those who say “people who don’t have Internet don’t need antivirus”…my daughter brought Mytob home on a thumbdrive from her friend’s house…and her mom doesn’t have Internet access.

> Just dont listen to the 10000000 posts of noobs, who say how importaint defragmenting is.

Defragmenting your hard disk extends its life by not having to seek all over the drive for often-used files. I’m not a noob – I’ve been an IT administrator for 12 years, and a computer user for twice that.

> ust google around and get a wiev of how f***ed microsoft’s…

If you want me to take you seriously, watch the language. You sound like a “noob” when you have to swear to make a point.

By: someone

someone — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:28:36 +0000

also consider setting a fixed pagefile size.
which will cause the system not to take up more space than needed.

max. pagefilesize = ram/2;

there is no need to give the system more than that. actually it would be pretty dumb to make the pagefile larger. just google around and get a wiev of how fucked microsoft’s memorymanagement really is

By: someone

someone — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:25:55 +0000

defragmentation is useless. it wont boost your machine’s speed in any relevant way.

Just dont listen to the 10000000 posts of noobs, who say how importaint defragmenting is. the speed gain doesnt justify the damage done to your hdds while defragmenting – not to speak the time it takes.

normal users dont ever need to defrag their drives! the two things, you would actually need to do: shrinking the MFT on ntfs cannot be done by normal users.

so if you are not a professional, just stick with shutting down useless services. this is the only thing to boost your system.

Also get brain 1.0 and you wont need to have an antivirus-software running all the time – just check the files, you beleave to have a chance of being contaminated.
Antivirus-software is one of the most ressource consuming things one can have on his machine.

By: Brian

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

Florian, this site may be of help to you:

http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?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: Xander

Xander — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:29:22 +0000

Florian — check the header of this page…
“…IN WINDOWS XP”

PageDefrag doesn’t work in Vista.

It’s a great program. I put it on all my customers’ XP systems.

By: Gnome

Gnome — Sat, 16 May 2009 10:59:13 +0000

>> Any idea what is wrong?

PageDefrag doesn’t work on Vista (only 2000/XP).

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