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I see, thank you so much, Shawn, it is quite helpful
I see, thank you so much, Shawn, it is quite helpful
Defrag is fine, but never clean the registry.
Personally, I wouldn't do either one considering how much of a disaster it would be if the registry was messed up, and how very little you would gain from a defrag.
Last edited by Brink; 04 Mar 2017 at 20:29.
Hello,
my drive's fragmentation status won't go below 20% (C: drive). What gives? Not a SSD.
It could be your Pagefile, hyberfil, swapfile and system volumn information that are fragmented, and cannot be defragment inside of Windows.
Here is what I used to do to get a better defrag, when I used HDDs:
First I installed Defraggler from Piriform: Defraggler - File and Disk Defragmentation - Free Download
So I could defrag in safe mode(Optimize drives doesn't function in safe mode, so you need a 3rd party defragmenter)
In Advanced Settings(Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\System)I would shut of system restore temporarily and delete all restore points by turning System Protection off:
Then I would turn off the page file(virtual memory).
Then boot into safe mode, run Defraggler, and before booting back into Windows, select Defragglers Boot-Time Defrag***\run once, which allows you to defrag files that are normally locked by the Operating System before the operating system is fully loaded.
Then you can turn Page file, and system restore back on(remember to create a restore point immediately after).
Piriform - Boot Time Defrag***Boot-Time Defrag – defrags the system disk during the boot time, before the whole operating system is loaded. This allows Defraggler to defrag the files which are blocked after the operating system is loaded. At the moment following files are defragmented during the boot time defrag:
- C:\pagefile.sys
- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\AppEvent.Evt
- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\default
- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM
- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SecEvent.Evt
- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SECURITY
- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software
- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SysEvent.Evt
- C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system
figured out that it wont defrag large files in windowapps folder.
had a 4gb game file in windowsapps and it was at the front of drive.
had to bypass security to gain access to the folder and then use O&O defrag and it moved it to a different spot on the drive.
actually I dont think windows built in defrag likes defragging large files.
I been using auslogics defrag to do quick defrags. and it always defrag large files and puts them some where else.
but for some reason auslogic wont touch the windowapps folder.
So Shawn do you think I shouldn't check the reg with CCleaner in 7 or 10?? as I always back up the results to merge back if I mess up?? Plus I back up the original install registry whenever I do reinstall??
As I don't have any spinners to think about much I would do a defrag on my SSD's at all.