About PageDefrag
PageDefrag is the defragger that uses advanced techniques providing you better than what most of the other commercial counterparts in the market offer at present. Whenever you remove a file from the hard disk an empty space is created. And as you write a new file the hard drive tries to fill in this empty space. And if the new file is larger than the empty space it is stored in another available space. Computers generally save the file in the first available space and not necessarily the entire file or folder in the single space. This is file fragmentation. The more fragmented your computer is the more time would it take to retrieve or store the file.
PageDefrag also has the ability to show you the status of your fragmented files and folders. It works on Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Server 2003 developed by Sysinternals/Microsoft. The average defragmenters are not able to defrag some of the files on the hard drive as these are not within their scope. These are the files which are opened and closed for some special usage such as Windows pagefile and Registry hives. But PageDefrag can even fragment these as an additional and outstanding feature.
Working on PageDefrag:
PageDefrag runs at the start-up and is perfect to defrag the virtual memory pagefile as well as the Registry files. It firstly shows you how fragmented the paging files and Registry hives are and then defrag them as per your requirement. It can also defragment event log files as well as Windows 2000/XP hibernation files, where the system memory is saved when you hibernate your computer.
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As PageDefrag takes the files to defragment one by one it displays on the boot time startup screen the file name as well the success at defragmenting it. After it is successful in defragmenting the file it displays the number of clusters the file had before defragmenting and the number it has now. And if PageDefrag is unable to reduce the fragmentation of some file it will notify you so on the boot time blue screen. The main causes for no result would be either no free space on the disk or too much fragmentation of the free space itself.
Features of PageDefrag Defragmenting:
- PageDefrag is a quick defragger as it tackles only a few files. If the files a too heavy it would take a bit more time to complete the process the first time.
- The Windows loads normally and automatically when the process of defragging is completely.
- PageDefrag can also be run non-interactively with command line option.
- It can defrag pagefile as well as Registry hives.
- It defrags event logs and hibernation file as well.
So, as your hard disk may be badly fragmented in the course of time defragmentation is greatly important for your system's optimization. And to save time and get the job done quickly just go for Contig.
