At 01:59 PM 6/26/01 -0400, Harold B. wrote the following:
>Thank you all for your ideas:
>
>1
>While power defrag shuts down programs before it defrags, it shows a lot
>of scattered clusters marked in red which it refuses to move. I have
>gone back to the defrag in win 95 which does not have this problem. ...
>Wally Whickman
>
>2
>Harold, one thing that can cause Defrag to do crazy things (or not work
>at all) is when you set your Virtual Memory (swap file) minimum/maximum
>settings to fixed values. If you have, try changing back to "Let
>Windows manage" ...John.Eichenlaub
>
>3
>This is the first time I've heard of this, and I've always run with a
>fixed swap file since starting with 95. How does a fixed swap affect
>the defrag John? ...Peter Kaulback
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>Well, this gets very interesting now; an opportunity for Sherlock Holmes
>to do some experimenting. I'll compare the defragmenting with my fixed
>swap setting (which I had done as suggested some time ago by this group)
>against a setting that I'll allow Windows to manage. Something tells me
>this is not it as I did my own virtual memory setting some time ago and
>this strange behavior (not mine) just recently started.
WHEN DEFRAGGING A DISK DRIVE...
If you are running Windows 98/SE/ME, consider configuring the swap file to a
constant swap file size, instead of the dynamic swap file used by default in
Windows. This reduces overhead because Windows no longer has to resize the
swap file. In addition, it helps to reduce hard disk fragmentation.
See this article about Swap files and Memory
http://www.pcforrest.freeserve.co.uk/swapfile.htm
--
Gerry Boyd
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