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Old March 10th 09, 11:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Terry R.[_2_]
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Default What's the best freeware defragger to use in Windows XP Pro.SP2 with limited free disk spaces?

The date and time was Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:15:32 PM, and on a
whim, Phillip Pi pounded out on the keyboard:

On 3/10/2009 10:29 AM PT, Terry R. wrote:

I doubt you will see any benefits by changing your cluster sizes by the
info you've provided.


OK. Then, I won't bother doing that then.


If you are able to install and uninstall programs, you could go through
and uninstall any programs that aren't needed any longer. There are
most likely a lot of Windows patch folders that could be moved from
c:\windows to D: or E: (in the unlikely event they would ever need to be
uninstalled, they could be copied back to c:\windows). You could free
up hundreds of megs on C: by doing that. Learn more about that by
reading he
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Hotfix_backup.htm


Yeah, I have tossed a lot of stuff out already especially SP2, hot
fixes, etc.


Your pagefile on C: is already at a minimum size.


Yes.


My bigger concern would be your "backup and archive" drive E:. It
appears there is only one hard drive in this workstation. So if your IT
dept. isn't backing up your local data to a server, or if your main data
isn't stored on a server and backed up, I would ask the IT people about
that. Because if you are backing up to E: thinking it's safe, it's a
false sense of security. If the hard drive fails you will lose C: D:
and E:, so you lose everything.


I do make weekly backups manually to a server as an offline and shared
backup. I use E: drive as my local storage.


Hi Phillip,

Since you have limited hard disk space available, I don't see a lot of
solutions left. You could turn off System Restore and empty the Recycle
Bin, then optimize C: with either of the defraggers I suggested
yesterday. Also, when/if you turn SR back on, make sure you're only
monitoring drive C:, as monitoring D: and E: will eat up more disk
space. Since I keep regular backups, and like to keep my 5 OS
partitions small (7 gig at the most), I keep SR turned off all the time.
The main reason is SR has failed me and too many clients when it was
really needed, so it's a false sense of security IMO, so why depend on
it at all. A good backup schedule is by far the best protection.


Terry R.
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