System Defrag

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When ever I run defrag it tells me I have a certain percentage of
"fragmented files". How do I find out what files they are, and get rid of
them if necessary?
 
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When ever I run defrag it tells me I have a certain percentage of
"fragmented files". How do I find out what files they are, and get rid of
them if necessary?


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Get rid of them?
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You don't need to do anything except run defrag. It is normal to have a
small percentage of fragmented files left.
 
When ever I run defrag it tells me I have a certain percentage of
"fragmented files". How do I find out what files they are, and get rid of
them if necessary?
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It's not unusual to have some files remain fragmented. They are in use and
the defrag tool cannot touch them. Running defrag a second time may pick up
a few more. You do not want to get rid of the files. Since they were in
use, they are either operating system files or belong to programs that run
continually.
 
Sharon F said:
It's not unusual to have some files remain fragmented. They are in use and
the defrag tool cannot touch them. Running defrag a second time may pick up
a few more. You do not want to get rid of the files. Since they were in
use, they are either operating system files or belong to programs that run
continually.
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I've also noticed that fairly large files (eg some .mp3's, .mpeg's) remain
fragmented, even though they weren't in use. Not surewhy this would be the
case - amybe defrag can't handle files over a certain size?

coma
 
I've also noticed that fairly large files (eg some .mp3's, .mpeg's) remain
fragmented, even though they weren't in use. Not surewhy this would be the
case - amybe defrag can't handle files over a certain size?
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Are you sure they were not in use? Media Player and XP preview features
have been known to put a lock on multimedia files when you least expect it.
There are many posts in these groups about not being able to delete
multimedia files without taking extra steps.
 
Sharon F said:
Are you sure they were not in use? Media Player and XP preview features
have been known to put a lock on multimedia files when you least expect it.
There are many posts in these groups about not being able to delete
multimedia files without taking extra steps.
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Thanks for the info Sharon, I'll look into it.

Would you recommend running defrag in safe mode to avoid this happening?

coma
 
Thanks for the info Sharon, I'll look into it.

Would you recommend running defrag in safe mode to avoid this happening?
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Personally, I use a third party disk defragmenter (Perfect Disk by Raxco)
that is capable of running very early during the boot process. The files
get defragmented and all is right with the world by the time Windows loads
the media player.
 
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