DefragMyLife Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Hi! I'm defragging my 1 TB HDD with Defraggler. It is slow. I tried these steps together at first for speed-up: Disabling volume shadow thing for NTFS. Disabling benchmark after defragging Excluding pagefile, hiberfil etc. files. Excluding moving big files to the end of drive All of these have improved defrag speed but it was still slow. Then today I tried something else: Closing system restore tool of Windows 10. Now it is much much faster. So here is the question: Is disabling system restore points of Windows 10 for defragging, right thing to do ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefragMyLife Posted December 16, 2018 Author Share Posted December 16, 2018 Seems like no problems so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy2 Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 - Makes perfect sense. Because Windows needs to keep track what has been changed (files, etc.) and put that in the (next) System Restore Point. All that info allows Windows to revert the changes that have been made when one installs a program or an app. - Question: did the amount of free disk space shrink as a result of using Defraggler ? People have been complaining about that in the past. System setup: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/gcNzIPEjEb0B2khOOBVCHPc A discussion always stimulates the braincells !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefragMyLife Posted December 18, 2018 Author Share Posted December 18, 2018 12 hours ago, Willy2 said: - Makes perfect sense. Because Windows needs to keep track what has been changed (files, etc.) and put that in the (next) System Restore Point. All that info allows Windows to revert the changes that have been made when one installs a program or an app. - Question: did the amount of free disk space shrink as a result of using Defraggler ? People have been complaining about that in the past. Okay. Thanks for help. I'll consider this in the future when I defrag my disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sethm1 Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 I have an SSD and windoes 10 - curious if anyone figured out this system restore point debacle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted February 2, 2019 Moderators Share Posted February 2, 2019 I never have Restore Points turned on, so never been an issue. @sethm - you aren't defragging your SSD are you? Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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