LeizaaR Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Hello people ! I think it will be a great idea to add an option to move this file (pagefile.sys) at the beginning of the HDD. Everybody know that the beginning of the HDD is more efficient than another part and even if it seems to be a thing not very useful, it could be in my opinion a good stuff to implement. "A bon entendeur, salut !" (like we could say in France) - "A word to the wise is enough" Benjamin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gray Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 I think it will be a great idea to add an option to move this file (pagefile.sys) at the beginning of the HDD. Everybody know that the beginning of the HDD is more efficient than another part and even if it seems to be a thing not very useful, it could be in my opinion a good stuff to implement. I'm not sure that "everyone knows" this - I could argue the exact opposite! If you have sufficient memory so that paging is (almost) unnecessary, it is best to put the page file as far out of the way as possible. Anyway, no program can move the page file when Windows is started; it has to be done very shortly after boot time. like CHKDSK of the Windows disk. ##### Adding all these additional and unrelated facilities (like messing with the registry) is just "feature creep", which in the case of Word means that many of the things it can do are not used nor wanted by 90% of the users... Please stick with defragmenting disks! There are other programs which do other things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted January 17, 2009 Moderators Share Posted January 17, 2009 Anyway, no program can move the page file when Windows is started; it has to be done very shortly after boot time. like CHKDSK of the Windows disk. There's a commercial defragger than can do it, the problem is the time necessary for such a so-called "tweak" takes a very long time for completion as it copies the paging file to another file and places it in the "desired" location then reboots removing the original page file. It takes forever and is a feature I've only used once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeizaaR Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 So with an option that we can tick or not, which it could be done just once (because it seems to take a very long time), Defraggler would accelerate the performance of the paging file of the HDD. But like you say, its just a "tweak" ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gray Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 There's a commercial defragger than can do it, the problem is the time necessary for such a so-called "tweak" takes a very long time for completion as it copies the paging file to another file and places it in the "desired" location then reboots removing the original page file. It takes forever and is a feature I've only used once. An option I tried last night was to increase the size of my page file, which caused it to go into two fragments, then to run Mark Russinovich's PageDefrag and reboot. PageDefrag did what it said, but the single page file extent was arbitrarily placed. I don't see any good reason why the page file can't just be left in peace! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoKenny Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 An option I tried last night was to increase the size of my page file, which caused it to go into two fragments, then to run Mark Russinovich's PageDefrag and reboot. PageDefrag did what it said, but the single page file extent was arbitrarily placed. I don't see any good reason why the page file can't just be left in peace! AMEN to that brother. "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein IE7Pro user Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted January 18, 2009 Moderators Share Posted January 18, 2009 All I use anymore to deal with a fragmented page file is PageDefrag, since it's an easy fast and free solution. I like the other files it defragments on boot too, been using it for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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