How do I defragment my C drive 100%

[Atomic Mitten]

I am attaching this in the hope that Doc, can help.

Well the attachment doesn't seem to work, so I'll print it here:

Fragments File Size Files that cannot be defraged

261 512MB WINDOWSMEMORY.DMP

3 373MB docs and settings local

12 1.02Gb my docs

6 406Mb system volume restore inf

55 231MB WestwoodEmperorDATAMAPS0001.RFD

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[Andrew]

That file is not showing up.(or not working for me)

To defrag c: totally you have to do it several times. Even then it cannot defrag certain files. I also seem to not be able to defrag my virtual memory.(it has 1 fragment)

[Atomic Mitten]

For the virtual memory(page file) for win xp, there is a utility to do this called page defrag.I downloaded this somewhere, can't remember where.

[Andrew]

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pagedefrag.shtml

is that it?

[Atomic Mitten]

Yup ! ;D

[Andrew]

My question is this

Volume fragmentation

 Total fragmentation  =  13 %

 File fragmentation  =  0 %

 Free space fragmentation  =  16 %

Why is it so fragmented?? I just defragged it twice.

Volume HP_PAVILION (C:):

 Volume size  =  71,797 MB

 Cluster size  =  4 KB

 Used space  =  11,224 MB

 Free space  =  60,573 MB

 Percent free space  =  84 %

Volume fragmentation

 Total fragmentation  =  13 %

 File fragmentation  =  0 %

 Free space fragmentation  =  16 %

File fragmentation

 Total files  =  70,646

 Average file size  =  210 KB

 Total fragmented files  =  0

 Total excess fragments  =  0

 Average fragments per file  =  1.00

Paging File fragmentation

 Paging/Swap file size  =  768 MB

 Total fragments  =  1

Directory fragmentation

 Total directories  =  2,537

 Fragmented directories  =  0

 Excess directory fragments  =  0

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation

 Total MFT size  =  73,366 KB

 MFT record count  =  73,350

 Percent MFT in use  =  99 %

 Total MFT fragments  =  3

[Nyarlathotep]

Do not forget that if you have turned on the option to clear your page file when you exit, there's nothing to defrag, especially when you just booted up..

[Atomic Mitten]

Where in Win xp can you turn that option on Doc ?

[Nyarlathotep]

Note: It might take a bit longer for your pc to shut down.

Start Regedit. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory Management. Select ClearPageFileAtShutdown from the list on the right. Right on it and select Modify. Change the value to 1 to enable.

Reboot your computer.

[Atomic Mitten]

Is it worth doing that Doc, what would the benefits be ?

[gryphon]

is that *.DMP file still on your C drive ?

if so you can delete it. . .it's doing nothing there anyway and the only one capable of reading it is Microsoft. . ..

[Atomic Mitten]

I deleted the memory dump, what's it for ?

What about the user dump?

[Atomic Mitten]

Woha! my pc just speeded up by about 50% ???

[gryphon]

the memory.dmp file is a file to which Windows "dumps" the memory contens when something crashes for example. When you get a message like Nero has caused a general protection error and will be closed. the current memory will be dumpted to that file. You can't read it, Windows won't need it. Nor can any other programm on your computer use or read it. Dump files usually override eatch other depending on the settings. Most of them can take up a few MB's. 400 - 500 usually. Slowing down your computer and just using space.

In some situations the preferances of any local dump file get's send to Microsoft. Besides that they appear to be able to read it, or decompile who knows what is in there. Although that is one of the tricks only Microsoft can do with Windows. ..

[Atomic Mitten]

It's a wonder it wasn't bigger, after all the crashes trying to connect on WOL. ;D

[gryphon]

by default any existing *.dmp file get overwritten by the next. . .

[Atomic Mitten]

Well something must have been wrong with my PC then, because I noticed the dmp file was the same size, last week when I did a defrag on C.

The only time I thought that windows writes to this file is when it dumps the memory to disk, on a windows serious error message,the last one I had said that windows was closing down to prevent damage to my pc, etc :O

[Nyarlathotep]

Woha! my pc just speeded up by about 50% ???

What caused it ?

[Atomic Mitten]

That was when my Graphics card was having problems and the fan supposedly stuck.

I still don't believe that a 4 week old card can stop working due to dust in the fan.

[Nyarlathotep]

I still don't believe that a 4 week old card can stop working due to dust in the fan.

Me neither.. So only cleaning your fan caused the increase of speed ? If you'd ask me I'd say your card was busted and they gave you another ?

[Atomic Mitten]

No Doc ! lol. we seem to be talking at cross purposes, Not removing the dust from the fan caused the increase in speed.

I meant deleting the mem dmp file caused the speed increase !

I thought you were asking what caused the serious error message.

Hope I explained better this time ? ;D

[Nyarlathotep]

Hope I explained better this time ? ;D

Yup !