Every couple days I am at 10% fragmented. It was like this with my last drive as well. I put in a new WD 80 gig 7200 running XP pro, 10 gig C: for the OS (NTFS) and the rest for storage. The same scenario. I have read that XP is like this but is this much normal? This is just a home PC. I spend time on forums, and do some web design work. Other than that mostly just surfing. Any thoughts or similar experiences?
Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations Wanet Telecoms Ltd on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
XP Pro Fragments too much
- Thread starter jrjr2u
- Start date
It may be that the fragmentation you are seeing is all just temporary internet and other temp files.
My computer, right-click on the drive, Disk Cleanup. Look at the Options to make sure you are doing all the cleaning you may want.
In IE, Tools, Internet Options, look at the Temporary Internet box, Settings, and reduce the amount of storage dedicated to temp files. Then do a clean of the temporary files.
Finally, adding some RAM might be a good idea if you have less than 512. This will reduce reliance on the pageing file. Quite honestly I use Diskeeper Workstation and just let it defrag without worrying about the issue.
My computer, right-click on the drive, Disk Cleanup. Look at the Options to make sure you are doing all the cleaning you may want.
In IE, Tools, Internet Options, look at the Temporary Internet box, Settings, and reduce the amount of storage dedicated to temp files. Then do a clean of the temporary files.
Finally, adding some RAM might be a good idea if you have less than 512. This will reduce reliance on the pageing file. Quite honestly I use Diskeeper Workstation and just let it defrag without worrying about the issue.
As bcaster has mentioned, before you defrag, dump all the temp files, unwanted cookies, internet history, excess sytem restore files.
This way your %fragmentaion does not rise as quickly, as refreshed page will probally not be the same size creating gaps in the data.
If you have a broadband connection, set your browser to get rid of all the internet temp files at closing. That way they are no longer there to get mixed with your useful work.
Also, if you own Norton's, or another 3rd party defragger, use it. The built in XP defragger is a stripped down version (the most USEFUL options are missing) of Diskeeper Lite.
*Remember.......
If you don't use your head,
your going to have to use your feet.
This way your %fragmentaion does not rise as quickly, as refreshed page will probally not be the same size creating gaps in the data.
If you have a broadband connection, set your browser to get rid of all the internet temp files at closing. That way they are no longer there to get mixed with your useful work.
Also, if you own Norton's, or another 3rd party defragger, use it. The built in XP defragger is a stripped down version (the most USEFUL options are missing) of Diskeeper Lite.
*Remember.......
If you don't use your head,
your going to have to use your feet.
- Status
