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  1. January 20th, 2003, 01:06 PM #1
    El Clammino
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    Defrag issues in XP Pro

    I have a PC with XP on a 3 Gb (about 1.5 used) partition, ran defrag and could not defrag the system restore files, it is considerable amount of space so i would like to clear this up.

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  2. January 20th, 2003, 01:20 PM #2
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    Try Diskeeper 7.0 . It will help with the problem that xp defrag has with not defraging running applications. hope it helps
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  3. January 21st, 2003, 05:10 PM #3
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    If you have a system good enough to run xp, then you need a bigger hard drive.... for xp to run good it uses a pretty large paging file; with the paging file, programs, and windows itself that system is just going to crash and crash and crash.....do yourself a favor and get a bigger hard drive or downgrade your pc
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    Kineda the page file is set by the amount of ram the box has. A 3gb hard drive is plenty for XP. I keep mine on its own partition.


    Camino, you may want to think about not using system restore.... it takes up just too much space. How much ram do you have?
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  5. January 22nd, 2003, 12:12 AM #5
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    We shut off system restore andall the files dissapeared, end user is happy, that makes me happy. It's on the 3gb partition just to get a feel for the OS and for truobleshooting purposes

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  6. March 23rd, 2003, 08:36 PM #6
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    Schedule a boot-time defrag to get those locked files.
    Default XP defrag has no boot-time defrag option so you might try Raxco PerfectDisk ( I prefer ) or Executive Software Diskeeper.
    XP default defrag is a stripped down Diskeeper MMC snap-in
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