- Defragmenting
- Posted by Rita D. on November 16th, 2005
I have 1 folder or file that will not defragment, according to the report.
No one seems to know how I can find out what it is and delete if it is
necessary, or defragment it.
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Rita D.
- Posted by R. McCarty on November 16th, 2005
Using XP's native defrag or a 3rd-Party defragmenter program ?
There are a number of files that XP's defrag doesn't process, so
having a few left untouched isn't an issue.
"Rita D." <boltslady@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:BA2AB38B-F26D-49C7-9DE3-B89619716C46@microsoft.com...
>I have 1 folder or file that will not defragment, according to the report.
> No one seems to know how I can find out what it is and delete if it is
> necessary, or defragment it.
> --
> Rita D.
- Posted by Patrick Keenan on November 16th, 2005
"Rita D." <boltslady@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:BA2AB38B-F26D-49C7-9DE3-B89619716C46@microsoft.com...
> I have 1 folder or file that will not defragment, according to the report.
> No one seems to know how I can find out what it is and delete if it is
> necessary, or defragment it.
> --
> Rita D.
It's often the System Restore folder, and there isn't really a big need to
defragment it. You probably can't see this because IIRC that folder is set
to system and hidden; you must turn on the display of such folders to see
it. That will not, however, permit its defragmentation.
HTH
-pk
- Posted by Rock on November 17th, 2005
Rita D. wrote:
> I have 1 folder or file that will not defragment, according to the report.
> No one seems to know how I can find out what it is and delete if it is
> necessary, or defragment it.
Don't worry about it, especially if using the built in defragmenter.
There are some files it won't do.
--
Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User
- Posted by Alias on November 17th, 2005
Rock wrote:
> Rita D. wrote:
>
>> I have 1 folder or file that will not defragment, according to the
>> report. No one seems to know how I can find out what it is and delete
>> if it is necessary, or defragment it.
You can find out what it is by reading the report after analysing the drive.
>
> Don't worry about it, especially if using the built in defragmenter.
> There are some files it won't do.
Really? It always defrags all of my files, on three computers. I know of
at least another ten computers that have the same experience.
Alias
