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Defraggler reports inconsistent drive defragmentation


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#1 OFFLINE   daocampo

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Posted 02 February 2009 - 05:06 PM

Every time I use defraggler in Vista I can't seem to get consistent file defragmentation results. For example, I was able to defragment my hard drive down to just 1 file that would not defragment in the system32 folder, and I don't know why this file would not defragment but I did not have permission (even though I am Adminstrator) to modify the file (typical Vista crapp). Then if I run defraggler again, it comes reports an entirely different report of fragmented files, and if I run it again, it comes back again with a different report, and it never can defragment the hard disk drive to report zero files defragmented. Perhaps if Piriform could develop a "safe mode" feature of defraggler where it performs the defragmentation before Vista loads to the desktop, this should resolve a lot of this anamolous defragmentation results and get the hard drive defragmented faster and more complete.

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Posted 02 February 2009 - 05:57 PM

What was the file name? If it was pagefile.sys, you can't defrag your page file while in Windows. You'll have to use a program like PageDefrag for that.

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