{"id":844,"date":"2008-06-16T20:10:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T00:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=844"},"modified":"2008-06-16T20:10:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T00:10:42","slug":"defragging-paging-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/06\/16\/defragging-paging-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Defragging & Paging Files"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just noticed that Piriform has released Defraggler, a free defrag tool. You may not recognize the name Piriform<\/em>, but many will recognize CCleaner<\/a>, their most popular product.<\/p>\n

Defraggler<\/a> seems a little spiffier than the standard Windows tool, though I’m not yet sure how it compares with Diskeeper, a commercial solution I’ve used in the past. Since I’d deleted many gigs of junk (the Vista “upgrade” kept around my old XP stuff, which still lives on another drive, and I wanted to start fresh, so I deleted my ~10GB in Windows.old<\/tt>), I figured a defrag was in order.<\/p>\n

I’d actually downloaded AusLogics Disk Defrag<\/a>, which claimed a 10% speedup after running, although it didn’t give me a lot of information. It mentioned that I had lots of ‘junk files’ or whatnot, so I went to get CCleaner, and that’s when I noticed Defraggler. So I downloaded that… I still had 15 fragmented files, although that’s not many. One novel feature of Defraggler is that you can defragment a single file if you want.<\/p>\n

Of course, my paging file is in about 90 pieces, which seems to always happen to me. (I don’t actually use<\/em> the paging file often, but I digress.) Enter PageDefrag<\/a>, a free tool from SysInternals, now owned by Microsoft. It will check fragmentation of various software and let me schedule a boot-time defrag of those files, since they normally can’t be touched while Windows is running. (Aside: you should do a “normal” disk defrag first, so that PageDefrag has better odds of having a big, contiguous chunk of disk space to use.)<\/p>\n

The wall I’ve currently run into is that PageDefrag doesn’t run on Vista. (I’m not sure I buy it, but a case could be made that a fragmented paging file isn’t necessarily bad: if<\/em> you’re not writing anything too big, it might be beneficial to have a ‘nearby’ sector to write in.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just noticed that Piriform has released Defraggler, a free defrag tool. You may not recognize the name Piriform, but many will recognize CCleaner, their most popular product. Defraggler seems a little spiffier than the standard Windows tool, though I’m … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}