The only way I have found to do it is to move the page file to another drive, and set the size of the file to a fixed value. If you have a gig or less of memory, it will probably help overall performance some as well.
To gain maximum benefit from moving it, however, it should be to its own drive on a separate controller channel than any of your other drives.
Second best bet is to put it on a small first partition on a separate drive, with the rest of the drive being used for very infrequently accessed files.
Set your Paging file to 20MB, hit set and reboot.
Run a full defrag, then re-set the file to your preferred setting. Be sure to set the file to the same initial and max sizes, or it will fragment again.
Get Diskeeper and set it run automatically, you'll never have frag problems again and will never know it's there.
Hey BMW how do i do that stuff you were talking about , Right now i have 2 ide drives could i put the page file on my secoond that is 100% unfragmented?
Hey BMW how do i do that stuff you were talking about , Right now i have 2 ide drives could i put the page file on my secoond that is 100% unfragmented?
With PATA drives, it is best for the drive containing the page file to not be on the same channel (cable) as the O/S drive. If you have two optical drives on the secondary PATA channel then, personally, I don't see a real advantage in moving it, and would leave it on the O/S drive. If you have one optical drive on secondary PATA then I would put the drive that is to contain the page file on the cable with the optical, as master, and configure windoze to maintain two page files, one on each of the two hard drives.
humm, Well i downloaded a HDD defrager and restarted my system withe then floppy and when i went of my other pc , i looked into this defrager and it said that it WIPES ALL DATA OFF , So i quickly took it out of my pc.... to close of a call... Anyway my page file is now fragment free , but i found a big cluster of files that have 1700 fragments and i cant defrag / boot-defrag this file , the name of the file is
/ Program Files / Ibingent / Cache / Whatever the files names are.
This has 1700 fragments and is causing me to lost 63% preformance.
how can i clean / defragment thease files?
Anyway my page file is now fragment free , but i found a big cluster of files that have 1700 fragments and i cant defrag / boot-defrag this file , the name of the file is
/ Program Files / Ibingent / Cache / Whatever the files names are.
This has 1700 fragments and is causing me to lost 63% preformance. How can i clean / defragment thease files?
Chances are that those are unmovable files and thus can't be defragmented. This is going deeper into windoze than I'm familiar with, so please hang in there for other members to reply.
Very suspicious, eh? Hopefully there's an entry in add-remove programs for it. Locking files is not friendly behaviour.
This is probably the root cause of the paging file fragmentation.
Here's to hoping that "thacrazygerman" knows what it is.
Backing up from that url to the home page suggests it may have something to do with a malware removal tool, but this isn't conclusive, of course. Just suspicous.
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