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What's the best freeware defragger to use in Windows XP Pro.SP2 with limited free disk spaces?
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. -- Lem -- MS-MVP To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm |
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