Windows xp will not defragment all files

I believe that as far as Windows XP is concerned, updates to correct this issue may never be seen. I Have Service Packs 1, 2, And 3. This thread is locked.

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It can schedule a defrag of the system files on your next boot, before the system is actually running. In fact, Windows 7 and better will do it automatically for you, once a week. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. I just reformatted my hard drive, and my machine says the same thing when I defrag after all my programs are re-installed.

Sometimes the easiest solutions are the best. Altho, as Leo says, you have to have enough free space on your harddrive for the defragger to work right.

Deleting all restore points then recreating a new restore point worked!!!! It freed up almost GBs on my gigabyte drive and most of the red boxes disappeared. I run Defraggler…. I cannot defrag my C: drive because the files that need to be defragmented are no longer in my computer so i think … A lost file recovery was done to obtain deleted files after a master reboot was done.

My Hard drive says I have space available but when i go to defrag. I have windows XP Home Edition. There are more reasons listed there than just disk space. So the actual percentage of free space is not the only factor, but the size of the fragmented file is important too. There are also some system files like the Master File Table MFT that cannot be defragmented by the windows defragmenter, but requires a third party utility.

While defragging some of the other system files may not be important, the MFT and paging files need to be defragmented for the best performance. I use an automatic defragmenter that defragments my 3 drives as and when necessary quietly in the background, so remembering to defrag or scheduling one for late nights is not a factor. I like it much more than the old conventional manual defrag or scheduled defrag because it automatically and intelligently tackles fragmentation in the background, without interrupting my computing.

Can this be a major contributor to why my machines are running slow? If so, what can I do to fix it? Do you WANT your hard drive to die from all that extra work? That being said, I did drop back to once a week, just because nightly defragging was of little benefit. The hint for PageDefrag is reason enough alone for this article. It would start, defrag, then remember where it was for the next day.

In the past I have always done a disc cleanup followed by a empty recycle bin, then a defrag, which has worked fine. The report says the Google file is Mb, fragments, and the timing seems to coincide with a recent updating of Google Earth to a new version. Windows Explorer shows a I have an external G backup drive also. Or should I ignore the issue, since it seems the only slow-down would be when using Google, which does seem to run more slowly even though I have FIOS internet?

That was the problem when I was getting the same message. May be something to look for. At sight I saw the space between most of the files and the small files over there was a bit more than the space used by most of the files, that makes me think, if I defragged those files, the page files, I may reduce the. However, my concern is that I have a huge amount of fragmented files and Windows XP keeps saying I still need to defragment. Should I move some of the files to my other drive and try to defragment a little at a time?

Thanks for all your great advice, keep it up! I have Is my computer going to lock up or what? Thanks, Jimmy. How do you consolidate the system files so you have larger free contigous space on your drive? It is impossible for my page file to be in a single fragment because I have unmovable system files scattered over the disk. I have jkdefrag, contig and pagedefrag. If you have already run the windows defragger, it will at least have made some attempt to group free space together, even if it cant get all the files.

So, you copy and paste the file into the same folder. This will force the OS to allocate space for another file, and it will choose the largest spaces available. It will then assemble the fragments of the original into the large spaces it allocated, which barring the most severe of space shortages and file fragmentations will usually drastically reduce the number of fragments in the copied file.

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