Pagekeeper? You mean Diskeeper? I don't know. I'll let someone else fill in the blanks.
Good point on hiberfil.sys. Yes, disable hibernation before booting to safe mode to defrag, then turn it back on after booting back to normal mode. As for optimizing the MFT, it appears that Raxco and O&O defrag programs can do that. Maybe Diskeeper too. I tried O&O briefly, until it kept messing up my offline files cache. Maybe they've fixed that bug by now - in any event, you should be able to use the trial version of O&O to defrag your MFT. (disclaimer: I never exercised that feature.) Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Button Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SOFT: Diskeeper vs. XP defrag Ah! I prefer to have the paging file ( 750Mb) positioned as near to the start of the drive as possible in FAT, or near the MFT in NTFS Yes expanding to 4Gb would cripple the system while it did it bit-by bit, but I'd sooner be able to see the problem occurring and be able to determine what was causing it, than to have something just give up and go away due to insufficient (virtual) memory leaving me to try to figure out why - especially as experience says it's not the cause that fails, just whatever causes most problems by failing. But - that's a case of personal preferences Main thing is to get rid of all temp stuff - not forgetting the hiber.sys file if your system is allowed to hibernate And:- Does Pagekeeper allow you to specify the ordering of directories, files and file types as well as group and sort directories on FAT partitions, including the booted OS partition Also - I didn't see an answer as to what manipulation can be done with/within the MFT, Have you any information (source) you can provide to save me looking for myself that is? JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Houseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:49 PM Subject: Re: SOFT: Diskeeper vs. XP defrag > I wasn't suggesting "no paging file" for normal use. XP runs just fine in safe mode with no pagefile, when there's at least 256MB of RAM. > > Eliminating the page file is essential to my procedure. It frees up a large block of space, allowing defrag to do a better job. > > As for the min vs max, if you want to allow a 4GB pagefile, but not allocate the entire 4GB, that's fine. But I'd make the minimum a large number that is not likely to be exceeded during normal use. And of course, if you rarely have 1 GB of pagefile requirement and suddenly need 3+ GB, it's more than likely a program error that will leave your system gasping for air. In terms of regaining control of your system, you'd be better off NOT having a 4GB upper limit. > > Carl -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
