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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP May 24th 09, 05:18 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 12
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Posted By johnnino
System Restore Fragmentation

Gerry,

Thanks for the extensive reply to the points I raised.

There is, in fact, a close correspondence between the files turned up by the
Windows Defragmenter and O&O Defrag. I use the Windows...
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP May 24th 09, 05:18 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 12
Views: 284
Posted By johnnino
System Restore Fragmentation

Gerry,

Thanks for the extensive reply to the points I raised.

There is, in fact, a close correspondence between the files turned up by the
Windows Defragmenter and O&O Defrag. I use the Windows...
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP May 23rd 09, 03:33 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 12
Views: 284
Posted By johnnino
System Restore Fragmentation

Gerry,

I do a disk cleanup before defragmenting. But something curious is going on
here.

Here's the test case: I ran O&O Defrag V.4 (with boot time fragmentation of
locked files) twice until it...
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP May 23rd 09, 03:33 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 12
Views: 284
Posted By johnnino
System Restore Fragmentation

Gerry,

I do a disk cleanup before defragmenting. But something curious is going on
here.

Here's the test case: I ran O&O Defrag V.4 (with boot time fragmentation of
locked files) twice until it...
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP May 21st 09, 09:34 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 12
Views: 284
Posted By johnnino
System Restore Fragmentation

C partition is 228 GB. Free space is 151 GB.

Thanks.

"Gerry" wrote:

How much free disk space and how large is your C partition?

Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk...
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP May 21st 09, 09:34 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 12
Views: 284
Posted By johnnino
System Restore Fragmentation

C partition is 228 GB. Free space is 151 GB.

Thanks.

"Gerry" wrote:

How much free disk space and how large is your C partition?

Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk...
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP May 21st 09, 01:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 12
Views: 284
Posted By johnnino
System Restore Fragmentation

I'm running Media Center Edition in Italian with System Restore points at the
1% minimum. Right now this gives me seven restore points. But an analysis
by the Windows Defrag utility shows 18...
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP May 21st 09, 01:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 0
Views: 1,165
Posted By johnnino
System Restore Fragmentation

I'm running Media Center Edition in Italian with System Restore points at the
1% minimum. Right now this gives me seven restore points. But an analysis
by the Windows Defrag utility shows 18...
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP November 25th 08, 06:17 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 8
Views: 321
Posted By johnnino
Use of System Restore followed by great loss of disk space

Situation report: I defragmented the disk. A long time was spent processing
the Restore files. When it was all over, only two Restore files remained
fragmented. But used disk space was...
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP November 18th 08, 11:44 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 8
Views: 321
Posted By johnnino
Use of System Restore followed by great loss of disk space

It's interesting you should bring up Zone Alarm and anti-virus programs. You
see, Windows crashed because I was torpedoed by my own anti-virus. I was one
of the victims of the AVG false positive...
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP November 17th 08, 03:08 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 8
Views: 321
Posted By johnnino
Use of System Restore followed by great loss of disk space

You're quite right. I don't need 12% of the disk for restore points. But if
I proceed directly to reducing space to 700MB, will I get a good cleanup of
the used disk space?

My firewall is Zone...
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP November 16th 08, 05:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 8
Views: 321
Posted By johnnino
Use of System Restore followed by great loss of disk space

Thanks for the reminder on the System Restore cleanup procedure. I suppose
this is the way I'll have to go once I'm sure I'm ready to say goodbye to all
but the last backup. Any idea why the used...
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP November 15th 08, 06:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 8
Views: 321
Posted By johnnino
Use of System Restore followed by great loss of disk space

This week I tried four or five restore points in an attempt to get Windows to
start. Once the problem was resolved I discovered that my used disk space
had gone from 72 GB to 108 GB! (250 GB...
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