I take the point about the value of defragmenting the page file, however,
I'm sure there are certain circumstances where it could become an issue.
But that is BTP as the OP wanted to know "how to" something, and all I'm
doing is informing him "how to" do just that.

But about it being "another startup item from a third party"

Firstly, it is written by the same team who develop Windows. Although,
strictly speaking Sysinternals has split financially from Microsoft, many
of it's team members are still closely involved with M$.

Also, it would not be classed as a "start-up item" like other start-up
items and does not have to compete with other applications or the boot-up
process itself, as it uses the Win32 API and executes well before the
[Windows] shell is even loaded (i.e. well before the "Welcome" screen
appears).

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Twayne" wrote in message
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It's a negligible "problem" with no downsides so I'd wonder about the
value of adding another startup item from a third party to the boot
process. Unless the disk is way over 50% full, a kill of the pagefile,
restart, defrag, and put the pafegile back on will do it. Once it's set
in place, a pagefile is very unlikely to become fragmented until disk
space is almost gone and windows can no longer centralize the pagefile's
location on the disk.


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Tim Meddick typed:
As you know, you cannot defragment your page file while
Windows is running.
However, if you would like your page-file to be
defragmented, then you can download "page defrag"
(pagedfrg.exe) by Sysinternals (a former division of
Microsoft).
A small, very easy to use application that writes an entry
in the registry to execute itself at the same point in the
boot process where "chkdsk" runs (when configured to)
before the pagefile becomes "locked" by Windows starting.

Just start the application while Windows is running and
specify where the pagefile is located, tick the "Run on
every boot" check-box, and it will automatically run next,
and every time Windows starts-up.
Direct download link for Page Defrag :
http://live.sysinternals.com/Files/PageDefrag.zip

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"John Callaway" wrote in message
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When I defrag ny laptop (XP SP2), I notice two large green
blocks. I assumed that is the page file area. Is there
any way to keep them together instead of separate? There
was just one before I increased the page file size, so I
guess instead of adding it to the same area , it created a
new separate area. JPC