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Old March 10th 09, 10:27 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Default What's the best freeware defragger to use in Windows XP Pro. SP2 with limited free disk spaces?

Lem

What rule says you cannot have long conversations.. It can go on for as long
people wish to contribute. At least it a sensible conversation and not a
flame war.


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"Lem" lemp40@unknownhost wrote in message
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Phillip Pi wrote:
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.


This thread has gone on far too long.

There seems to be an extremely simple solution to your defragmenting
problem: pick some of the largest files/folders and *temporarily* move
them someplace else. You could move them to the server that you use as
"offline and shared backup," you could burn them to a CD or DVD, or you
could buy an inexpensive USB drive (or even a USB flash drive, given that
you're only going to be using it temporarily; you can get an 8GB flash
drive for less than $15
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...SrchInDesc=8gb
or 16GB for less than $30
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=16gb&bop=And).

Move enough files so that the Windows defragger has enough free space to
work, then move your files back.

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