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Will defraggler be able to defrag custom size page file and put it at the beginning of the drive?

 

This is a technique that a lot of hardcore gamers use to speed up loading time. In general it increases windows xp performance. Not many defragmenter capable of doing it. Voptxp is the only defragmenter that I remember to has this feature.

 

I complement Piriform for making good free products. I use CCleaner regularly and I like it. I hope in the future Piriform will make CCleaner to clean registry even better, just like Regseeker :). And watch out for the competition, like Wise Disk Cleaner and Wise Registry Cleaner, which sometimes I also use.

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Will defraggler be able to defrag custom size page file and put it at the beginning of the drive?

 

This is a technique that a lot of hardcore gamers use to speed up loading time. In general it increases windows xp performance.

In most cases putting the pagefile at the start of the drive will hurt performance, not improve it. If you're a hardcore gamer you want your gaming files at the start of the disk (and lots of ram to reduce pagefile usage in the first place). Unless you're short of ram there isn't much point.

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I know accessing page file is slow.

 

The problem is this.

 

No matter how big you ram size is, big games still use large page file. Take example Company of Heroes, which requires 700MB plus page file.

 

Of course if they don't need page file at all or just small amount, i wouldn't dare to put the page file at the beginning of the drive. This case of course is for XP, Vista wise I don't know.

 

If the theory is totally false, then it's my mistake, I'm sorry, just forget about that feature. But does defraggler already has the capability to defragment page file or not? As far as I know, you have to reboot to do it. Since my defraggler doesn't reboot, I just assumed it doesn't. But then again, my page file is already optimized. Perhaps you can tell me, JDPower.

 

Or this entire page file defragmenting is completely unnecessary? Check this url from Wiki Fragmentation of the page file

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I complement Piriform for making good free products. I use CCleaner regularly and I like it. I hope in the future Piriform will make CCleaner to clean registry even better, just like Regseeker :).

Not just like RegSeeker I hope. On my Vista laptop RegSeeker (it did calim Vista compatibility) made null entries in the registry and must have gotten rid of some other important keys. I lost the file indexing service, the ability to see anything in Windows Media Player except in skin mode, and I could neither uninstall the Office 2007 trial version I had or install Office 2000 on top of it. RegSeeker works great for my XP desktop, but doesn't appear to like Vista.

I know this doesn't really belong in this part of the forums, but I just really hated having to reinstall Vista 3 times, because that's how long it took before I finally figured out it was RegSeeker's fault. Messing with the registry is dangerous and part of the reason I like CCleaner's registry cleaner is it hasn't harmed my computers by deleting too much.

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But does defraggler already has the capability to defragment page file or not? As far as I know, you have to reboot to do it. Since my defraggler doesn't reboot, I just assumed it doesn't. But then again, my page file is already optimized. Perhaps you can tell me, JDPower.

As far as I know Defraggler doesn't defrag the pagefile. Only free software I know of that does this is Pagedefrag. Of course you can defrag the pagefile without using any software, just turn it off (set to zero) and back on again (assuming there's enough free space for it). And if you have the minimum and max values set to the same, sensible, value you shouldn't get any pagefile fragmentation any way ;)

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Thank you for the reply MrRon, and also to JDPower.

 

To Guest_Jim_*

The paragraph where I said "just like Regseeker :) " was meant to tease MrRon and other Piriform crew about the "competition" (hence the smiley face). Of course I want CCleaner to be better, not just like Regseeker. And of course safety is first, nobody wants to use any cleaner that wipe out important registry. And I do like CCleaner the most because it's very safe. I hope that will clear things up.

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