What's the best freeware defragger to use in Windows XP Pro. SP2with 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.

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