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Auslogics disk defrag does a good job and why did you switch to vista?
Personally, O&O Defrag is way better than windows integrated one, it even defragments paging file, which improves a lot the PC performance.
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The fragmentation of the pagefile that occurs when it expands is temporary. As soon as the expanded regions are no longer in use (at the next reboot, if not sooner) the additional disk space allocations are freed and the pagefile is back to its original state.
The pagefile is rarely read or written in sequential order, so the performance advantage of having a completely sequential pagefile is minimal.
Defragmenting the page file is also occasionally recommended to improve performance when a Windows system is chronically using much more memory than its total physical memory. This view ignores the fact that, aside from the temporary results of expansion, the pagefile does not become fragmented over time. In general, performance concerns related to pagefile access are much more effectively dealt with by adding more physical memory.
Please read up on the pros/cons of pagefile defragmentation.
Smart Defrag (free) works very well on Win XP, Vista and Win 7.
Smart Defrag - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com
Thanks guys, I'll try them out.
And I switched to Vista because Windows 7 wouldn't boot and I had to do a back-up.
I used to religiously use Auslogics, then I got sick of the adverts inside it which makes it look tacky, then I used Defraggler for months, now I use Windows 7 built in defrag.
The built in Windows 7 defrag is about the same speed as the rest, and I've heard it's meant to defrag the best something involving prefetching or something.
I'd just use the built in one tbh and disable the schedule. I defrag about 2 or 3 times a day, overkill I know but it only takes a few seconds and keeps your system at its fastest
Except O&O Defrag is notorious for corrupting hard drive data. I was burned once by it, and found many many others with the same stories.
That was a useful feature in the past, especially when the common tweak was to set a static page file, but with the way Windows 7 handles the pagefile and defragging internally, it isn't needed anymore. If you have anough memory in your system, the pagefile isn't hit that often, which means it won't grow and won't fragment.
Well...I still use static paging file configuration in Windows 7, yeah I know, the impact is minimal, with 4 GB or RAM I barely need to use the page file... but I like to control whenever it changes or not, so I don't get surprised by "missing GB" in my HDD... is just that. Defrangmenting it with the config I use improves system because the program can allocate the files in space easily and takes les to do the whole stuff... just my way of having W7, works flawlessly.
That is amazing for me... I've been using this soft for more than 4 years, and I had never that kind of problems, even now in W7... I never new of that O_O
I notice that, if you have 4 GB or more, Paging file is not used at all, or very lil' sometimes... anyway, as I said some line above, I set a static page file to control HDD free space.
As always, I find useful information here... I never know about that stuff in O&O... but never happened to me O_O
See ya!!
Vista improved when it became Windows 7....lol. Actually Vista was just a shock having come from XP pro. Now with Windows 7 when I revisit my girl friends Vista system it all makes more sense, I just like how nimble 7 is !